![]() But I think Joaquin paints a subtler picture of human psyche - Nenita Coogan is right that much of what people present to the world is a veil to hide something else. ![]() She is obsessed with the notion that people often have a real self that they are hiding, and that you just need to strip off the mask to find it. One thing that seems to be important is a matter Joaquin handles very subtly, namely, how accurate Nenita Coogan actually is. There are enough layers to this work, short though it is, that I can do no more than touch on a few points with regard to it. Jack reconnects with his roots, but also finds himself enmeshed in an interlocking set of mysteries with ramifications for what the true self of Philippine culture itself is. ![]() In Cave and Shadows, Jack Henson is back in Manila after years in Davao, because a girl, obsessed with discovering the true self everyone hides, was found mysteriously dead in a cave that had been locked up the girl, Nenita Coogan, had been the daughter of Jack's wife, who had left him to run away with a Jesuit priest. The vision - a crab on a string being walked by a naked girl - occurred in deep hotel-corridor twilight and moreover when he, Jack Henson, was feeling himself in a swoon. ![]()
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