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Dear Frank,
Menchu sent me this and authorized me to send it to your blog if you'd care to use it. Thanks so much from both of us. -- Babeth
RISING FROM THE ASH-COVERED LOAM
By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento
Talk delivered at the Sixth NVM Gonzalez AwardsUniversity of the Philippines Executive House
26 November 2005 NVM Gonzalez would have been 90 this year.
Menchu sent me this and authorized me to send it to your blog if you'd care to use it. Thanks so much from both of us. -- Babeth
RISING FROM THE ASH-COVERED LOAM
By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento
Talk delivered at the Sixth NVM Gonzalez AwardsUniversity of the Philippines Executive House
26 November 2005 NVM Gonzalez would have been 90 this year.
I never met him, but Chari Cruz Lucero, another NVM Gonzalez Prize Winner, told me a story that shows just how wonderful he was.
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Chari was a student then and had read something she wrote before an academic forum. An unsympathetic professor heckled and badgered her relentlessly. Being very young and unused to such an assault, she burst into tears. Wordlessly, NVM Gonzalez went up to her and took her in his arms.
Sometimes silence and the language of touch are better than words.
And though it's risky to say this in a roomful of writers, it is always preferable to be a good human being than to be a great writer. Those of you her