Summary

The chapter opens with an excerpt from Autoplagiarist, wherein Crispin describes his Tito Jason, a guerrilla soldier, whom he idolized. Tito Jason was killed in an attack, and the excerpt ends with Crispin wondering whether his father knew about the attack beforehand. Miguel’s first person narration follows this excerpt. Miguel is at Sadie’s parents’ house. They go up to her room. Miguel wants to kiss her, but she is distracted, looking around the room for her poetry diary so that she can read him a poem. In the room, Miguel sees a disassembled Glock, and references Chekhov’s gun. Sadie finds the diary and reads him a poem, and then is certain that he hates it even after he attempts to reassure her.

In an excerpt from The Enlightened, the protagonist Cristo returns home after resisting American troops, and tells Maria Clara...