The Truth (part 5) From the diary of Renato Ricablanca Baylon, great descendant by blood of Suyonon Hero of the Kingdom of Calamianes in Palawan, Antonio Surabao, and by blood compact of Pitonggatang, half-blood prince of the Kingdom of Tondo in Manila: Letter to a Friend (continuation) Do not be confused. The general sense of shadow is not as illuminating as it wants to be and become. If the warden tells you that he will make sure that before your prison time is over you shall be more afraid of him than your own shadow, he is insinuating of the ghostly kind, of course. When your fellow prisoners are sending you encrypted messages through the walls of your cell that they are beginning to see shadows in the dark, this more or less implies a rather woeful deterioration of their sensory fa

