with f. sionil josé
What could be so special about weekends - about Saturdays at that. Well, in the seminary, the VTR (seminary jargon for home video / DVD watching) every after supper makes Saturdays special. That didn't mattered yesterday. Yesterday is something worth not missing, something to be recollected, something fit to linger upon my consciousness (and unconsciousness perhaps) and to be kept in the box of my fondest memories. I (and my creative writing classmates) met F. Sionil José.
F. Sionil's Po-on (of the Rosales Saga) was the first ever novel that I read for leisure - and I really enjoyed it. Po-on change my paradigm on books - in a wider sense, literature. I never thought that books could be so rich in imagery as if I'm watching the scenes in my mind. Crisp and vivid images that allowed me to see, hear, feel, touch and even taste every aspect of the story is that which I like most about the works of Sionil (the Rosales Saga, particularly).
I felt blessed being with the master behind the words that has zapped me from my mundane world. I have been enchanted and courted by his scenes, by his narrative to gain taste for that which has been made up. Fiction entered my life. It allowed me to look at the world in a wider sense through the creative and the ever observant eyes of Sionil.
I wish could muster more words to express my gratitude for yesterday's experience but I am but limited - by time, for this case. So let these images speak. Or allow me to let you be inspired by F. Sionil José, himself.
f. sionil jose - to the aspiring writers - part 1 of 3
Labels: an attempt, photography, video
