Links to allusions in Reyes's book

I'm going to put up some links that will help you in your reading of the book.

ghazal: (I hate it when I link to wikipedia, but here goes):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal

Alejandro Murguia (headnote):

http://www.sfsu.edu/~raza/Faculty.html

_Apocalypse Now_ (not mentioned overtly, but a film about Vietnam and Cambodia that was filmed in the Philippines):

http://www.geocities.com/aaronbcaldwell/ApocalypseNow.html

Subic Bay (former US naval base in the Philippines):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay

Here is a very odd and troubling site on relationships between white men and Filipina women that links to other such sites. I found it under "Subic Bay," on google.

http://filipinawives.com/memorial.html

The Clash, "Charlie don't surf":

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/the-clash/charlie-dont-surf.html

Charlie (Vietcong):

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-enemy/vietnam.htm

Kumintang, and Kundiman (music)

http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=60

Curious about Tagalog words?

http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/

and let me add, in answer to the question about where "poeta en San Francisco" comes from, a link to Gabriel Garcia Lorca, a Spanish poet who wrote _Poeta en Neuvo York_.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fglorca.htm

You're on your own with the references to Catholicism. Please read through these linked pieces--it was great finding them!

aloha, sms