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Jose Rizal on Wikipedia
A Jose Rizal site in both English and Tagalog.
Those pages are actually at the top of a set of book guides. If I was in the mood I'd translate them to English, but I'm a bit busy right now. O_o And my crack versions of their description (with help from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
osmalic) sound scary in the calm light of day:
blue_cage Well, for example Ibarra - at first clueless!emo boy who ranks as Noli's Pika*Pika boy. Everyone loves him, except for the parish priest, but then who'd want an aging Dominican anyway? He's got a shoujo love story with childhood friend Maria Clara, but events (and a dashing boater by the name of Elias) just might change his destiny! Oh, btw, don't you think there's some UST between him and Padre Salvi?
osmalic: ...................NO COMMENT ON SALVI.
blue_cage XD Fine. *erases last line*
blue_cage Padre Salvi: For Padre Salvi, see Snape.
blue_cage And Maria Clara: Somehow, she has a backbone. O_o; Almost Mary Sue-ish, because she is likely based off Jose Rizal's ideal girl at that time, but she was willing to sacrifice self for her lover, and it comes with a terrible price.
osmalic: I actually agree that she's Mary Sue, but the one thing I admire about her was how she didn't faint, not once! XD
blue_cage Mm, true.
osmalic: (And Rizal noted this, too. Heh.)
blue_cage mm, before I forget: Placido Penitente - The name says it all. Decides to join "The Cause" after much wangsty!UST with a UST prof. Unfortunately, fanon!Placido often goes ballistic, tearing at his shirt and begging that someone, anyone, get rid of his USTs. XD I like the Placido bit.
osmalic: "I'm a stubborn uke! I make it worth your while."
blue_cage XD oh right. Simoun: See Count of Monte Cristo for original. Edmond Dantes is a bit boring though, I think it's because Simoun did that I'm a head without a body routine in the Quiapo fair. Is actually Pika*pika boy Ibarra seeking revenge and still going emo over Maria Clara. He's so used to being emo that when he learned tha spoileralert!*Maria Clara died*spoileralert he couldn't go on with his murderous intentions. Almost blew up a house, but went all emo.
osmalic: And then in the end, Basilio realized: "Am I going to be an emo!kid like Ibarra now that Julie's dead?" -->during El Fili's epilogue, while Florentino is being noble and brave.
blue_cage Basilio and Crispin - brothers who did not have time to get incestuous because one gets killed soon after they were introduced.
osmalic: (But no one's stopping anyone who wants them to be incestuous before they're introduced!)
blue_cage Basilio is then left to fend for himself and his kinda cuckoo mother, who is wandering the streets looking for them
blue_cage Capitan Tiago: actually a decent fellow, typical Filipino who doesn't mind bending the rules to get what he wants. Fond of cockfighting
osmalic: And his daughter! ........That sounded wrong.
blue_cage Might or might not have a thing for Ibarra senior, depending on what you read between the lines. (Please, don't tell us if you think so! XD)
osmalic: No...I think the guy who told Ibarra about his dad could have, though.
blue_cage Maria Clara is the apple of his eye, and his reason for living. Too bad the story ends with them separate though. And oh, yes, that officer! He was never named, was he?
osmalic: Officer?
blue_cage yeah. He was.
osmalic: Oh, you mean who told Ibarra about his dad. He had a name, he introduced himself in the third chapter. I...think?
Said "officer" is Tiniente Guevarra. XD
Yet another Rizal site. Ignore the graphics, and check out the list of articles pertaining to perceptions of Rizal as a hero.
Jose Rizal on Project Gutenberg. Both El Fili and Noli are translations by Charles Derbyshire. I think I have an extra copy of the translation by Leon Ma Guerrero, but what I want is a list of the quotations used in chapter headings. Anyone know where to find them?
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holmesian Still hedging over what to write, but I did find out that doing an advanced search for "detective stories" in Project Guterberg yields works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Honoré de Balzac, and two books by Agatha Christie. The search results seem to include some horror mysteries as well, but I haven't checked it out. I'm going to download a couple of the Lock and Key Library, edited by Julian Hawthorne, to sample what he thinks were the best of the mysteries back in the days of yore. :D
The University of Adelaide e-text library has a list of books under the theme "crime". I've yet to look through the authors list and check if they missed mentioning something in their collection, but it links to a download of the complete Father Brown stories by G.K.Chesterton.
A Jose Rizal site in both English and Tagalog.
Those pages are actually at the top of a set of book guides. If I was in the mood I'd translate them to English, but I'm a bit busy right now. O_o And my crack versions of their description (with help from
osmalic) sound scary in the calm light of day:blue_cage Well, for example Ibarra - at first clueless!emo boy who ranks as Noli's Pika*Pika boy. Everyone loves him, except for the parish priest, but then who'd want an aging Dominican anyway? He's got a shoujo love story with childhood friend Maria Clara, but events (and a dashing boater by the name of Elias) just might change his destiny! Oh, btw, don't you think there's some UST between him and Padre Salvi?osmalic: ...................NO COMMENT ON SALVI.blue_cage XD Fine. *erases last line*blue_cage Padre Salvi: For Padre Salvi, see Snape.blue_cage And Maria Clara: Somehow, she has a backbone. O_o; Almost Mary Sue-ish, because she is likely based off Jose Rizal's ideal girl at that time, but she was willing to sacrifice self for her lover, and it comes with a terrible price.osmalic: I actually agree that she's Mary Sue, but the one thing I admire about her was how she didn't faint, not once! XDblue_cage Mm, true.osmalic: (And Rizal noted this, too. Heh.)blue_cage mm, before I forget: Placido Penitente - The name says it all. Decides to join "The Cause" after much wangsty!UST with a UST prof. Unfortunately, fanon!Placido often goes ballistic, tearing at his shirt and begging that someone, anyone, get rid of his USTs. XD I like the Placido bit.osmalic: "I'm a stubborn uke! I make it worth your while."blue_cage XD oh right. Simoun: See Count of Monte Cristo for original. Edmond Dantes is a bit boring though, I think it's because Simoun did that I'm a head without a body routine in the Quiapo fair. Is actually Pika*pika boy Ibarra seeking revenge and still going emo over Maria Clara. He's so used to being emo that when he learned tha spoileralert!*Maria Clara died*spoileralert he couldn't go on with his murderous intentions. Almost blew up a house, but went all emo.osmalic: And then in the end, Basilio realized: "Am I going to be an emo!kid like Ibarra now that Julie's dead?" -->during El Fili's epilogue, while Florentino is being noble and brave.blue_cage Basilio and Crispin - brothers who did not have time to get incestuous because one gets killed soon after they were introduced.osmalic: (But no one's stopping anyone who wants them to be incestuous before they're introduced!)blue_cage Basilio is then left to fend for himself and his kinda cuckoo mother, who is wandering the streets looking for themblue_cage Capitan Tiago: actually a decent fellow, typical Filipino who doesn't mind bending the rules to get what he wants. Fond of cockfightingosmalic: And his daughter! ........That sounded wrong.blue_cage Might or might not have a thing for Ibarra senior, depending on what you read between the lines. (Please, don't tell us if you think so! XD)osmalic: No...I think the guy who told Ibarra about his dad could have, though.blue_cage Maria Clara is the apple of his eye, and his reason for living. Too bad the story ends with them separate though. And oh, yes, that officer! He was never named, was he?osmalic: Officer?blue_cage yeah. He was.osmalic: Oh, you mean who told Ibarra about his dad. He had a name, he introduced himself in the third chapter. I...think?Said "officer" is Tiniente Guevarra. XD
Yet another Rizal site. Ignore the graphics, and check out the list of articles pertaining to perceptions of Rizal as a hero.
Jose Rizal on Project Gutenberg. Both El Fili and Noli are translations by Charles Derbyshire. I think I have an extra copy of the translation by Leon Ma Guerrero, but what I want is a list of the quotations used in chapter headings. Anyone know where to find them?
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holmesian Still hedging over what to write, but I did find out that doing an advanced search for "detective stories" in Project Guterberg yields works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Honoré de Balzac, and two books by Agatha Christie. The search results seem to include some horror mysteries as well, but I haven't checked it out. I'm going to download a couple of the Lock and Key Library, edited by Julian Hawthorne, to sample what he thinks were the best of the mysteries back in the days of yore. :DThe University of Adelaide e-text library has a list of books under the theme "crime". I've yet to look through the authors list and check if they missed mentioning something in their collection, but it links to a download of the complete Father Brown stories by G.K.Chesterton.