This darkness

is handsome

and it

knows its power.

It knows its power well.

As the images wane, the silent

noise gravels the squalid head,

giving rise to adventures in the bleary dimness

where only the sensitive and miraculous

survives. Its gloom is wild in the travesty

of its fury, which darkness is…

And nothing more.

Such is its

splendor,

which lies

in the concealed

yet obvious..

For the shadow eschews that which is bright.

And the darkness shines in the absence of light.

February 7, 2005

Ronald Gue was born on April 20, 1985.  His favorite authors include (but are not limited to) Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Umberto Eco, Angela Manalang Gloria, Marjorie Evasco, J. Neil Garcia, Vicente Groyon III, F. H. Batacan, and Franz Kafka.  He is currently on his fourth year at De La Salle University-Manila taking up a double degree and double major course,  BSE English and AB Literature.  His favorite critics/professors include Dr. David Bayot, Dr. Paz "Doods" Santos, Dr. Cirilo Bautista, Dr. Isagani Cruz, Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera, among others.  He is currently taking up a philosophy course under a chauvinist professor who thinks that women are second rate humans and that they should be subordinate to men.  The name is Ernest Villacorta, and the said professor also believes that literature is useless.  Hint:  That chauvinist got kicked out of the Literature Majors Program of DLSU-M during his undergraduate years, hence his hatred (a rather unfounded one) against the field. 

He is a Filipino-Chinese living in Binondo, but he looks Pinoy but is fluent in Chinese and claims to be Filipino.  Well he is anyway.  His undergraduate thesis is a marxist-feminist analysis of selected plays in Teatro Pulitical using theories by Althusser, Spivak, and Alice Guillermo.  He is just taking up Education and English courses for the degree, but he loves Literature and his ambition is to be a concert pianist someday.  He is on his way to fulfilling that dream under the tutelage of the renowned concert pianist Mary Anne Espina.

Lastly, Ronald Gue is a vegetarian (no meat, seafoods, onions, garlics, and chives).