Good fortune and timing. Bought this #nickjoaquin classic just in time for #EDSA32 #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/I3fAUam6rn— glenncruz (@glenncruz) February 26, 2018
R's Bookshelf, a Facebook-based seller of rare second-hand but in excellent condition books, left me a message to say that I chose the right time to buy this classic account of the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 by the late National Artist Nick Joaquin. I received my purchase three days before EDSA Uno's 32nd anniversary.
I randomly flipped the pages, and my eyes landed on this paragraph, on page 91:
As for the now increasingly emphasized claim that Mr. Marcos didn't know that he was fleeing (he thought he was merely being flown to Ilocandia) all that's needed to puncture that claim is Mr. Marcos's own statement that he fled because he didn't want to "shed Filipino blood." And blood is surely what would have been shed if he had been flown to Ilocandia. Yet again and again we now hear that Mr. Marcos never wanted to flee these shores and was unwittingly flown to where he had no desire to be. Mr. Marcos doth protest too much.See, children, even National Artists fight against the words of our lying politicians, and yes, fake news.
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