Appendix to Insurrecto
CHAPTERS IN NUMERICAL ORDER
1 The story she wishes to tell, an abaca weave, a warp and weft of numbers by the time they pass Oras onto M/V Blanket settling finally onto Samar on the way to Balangiga across the strait— Not even her mother’s phone call with only the San Juanico Strait between her and return along the coast toward a historic place wipes the blood. And so in the Pajero, the women give each other—finally, the karaoke.
2. At Ali Mall
3. A decrepit, cramped block of shops
4. Chiara affirms she is the daughter
5. Chiara crafts a movie script
6. Why Samar??!!
7. There is always an alternate story
8. A film with a void at its heart
9. Thrilla in Manila
10. Translations
11. Magsalin, on the other hand, will be wandering
12. What Chiara does not reveal
13. The motif of the postmodern
14. The m.o. of clowns
15. The need to forget
16 The model for the photographer
17. The dossier Magsalin receives
18. In Punta
19. In the last novel by Stephane Real
20. The insoluble puzzle at the heart of the labyrinth
SCRIPT 1
21 Everything in the world is doubled
22 Why Samar?!
23 Before the weeping
24 The monsoons of Manila
25 The molting spirals
26 The model for the photographer
27 Elvis is polite and longs for love
28 The secret metastasizing thing
29 The Intended
30 Days of the dead
31 The trail
32 The monstrous idol
33 The portrait
34 How could she know?
35 Sorrow is a weave, a sinuous braid of abaca hemp
SCRIPT 2
21 The photographer at the heart of the script
22 Tristesses
23 Cassandra Chase’s presence in Samar
24 Days of the habagat
25 The ordinary miracle of stereopsis
26 Padre Donato feels the heat
27 Noon
28 What she wants is a sense of a ghost
29 Stereovision
30 Vespers
31 The fabulous portage
32 Casiana Nacionales
33 The keys
34 Breakfast in Balangiga
35 An apotheosis