Shayo
Akala ko talaga wala nang tatalo sa depression na dulot ng Kokoro, pero hello! Eto na naman ang isang libro, this time written by Dazai Osamu. This is another required reading for my ASIA2670 class.
Shayo (The Setting Sun) is one of Dazai’s novels that were written after the post-war period (yung isa ata ay yung (Ningen Shikakku). Medyo stable rin ata ang pag-iisip niya noong mga panahong ito, but still, puno pa rin ng kalungkutan at “sense of doom” ang buhay niya.
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrows, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happpiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born. (The Setting Sun, p. 98)
Despite of the presence of cynicism in this story, na pinaparamdam sa iyo na wala namang kuwentang mabuhay sa mundo, I think Shayo is an uplifting novel in its own way. More »
Anyway, this sideblog’s one of the latest stuff I added on my blog. Wala lang.
Angela Solis grew up in the Philippines before moving in to Canada in 2003. She became a Canadian in 2006. Angela is 22 years old and an alumna of University of Manitoba with a degree in Psychology. She has been blogging since 2002. She maintains a 