Are these other creatures of rhetorics - fabula, proposito, traditus, and intempestivo - set to help lex, scientia, and sensus in their one mission this first day of the New Year? Or do they exist to disrupt whatever has been accomplished by Aaron, expected by Sir Raymond, and prayed for to be done with soon by Miss Emma?
What does history tells us, particularly Philippine history, what do the possibilities of our local past tell us about the seemingly eternal battle of rhetorics by the gods - and what would be their consequences to the human story as derived from the seven known and possible kinds of plot?
Picture a typical Filipino child of thirteen. The child is taught to read up on the history of one’s people, on the local stories of the islands, in order to understand more of who on
