CHAPTER 1 A SOCIAL GATHERING

 Last of October; Capitan Tiago (Don Santiago de los CHAPTER 11 THE RULERS
Santos) gave a dinner  Who were the caciques of San Diego?
 Calle Anloague  Don Rafael was the richest, owned more land, but
 Pasig River or Binondo River modest
o Bath, sewer, laundry, fishery, means of  “Sacristan Tiago”
transportation and communication, and even  Gobernadorcillo did not command but obeyed, never
drinking water from the Chinese water-carrier usurped, cost 5000 Pesos
 “important artery of a district”  God
 “Pearl of the Orient”  San Diego was a kind of Rome, not during Romulus
 Tortoises: esteemed and classified according to our time
shells o Marble monuments and colosseums vs sawali and
 Paintings: "Purgatory," "Hell," "The Last Judgment," cockpit of nipa
"The Death of the Just," and "The Death of the Sinner"  Pope in the Vatican vs alferez of the civil guard vs King
 Inscription: "Our Lady of Peace and Prosperous of Italy, each wished to be the master
Voyages, who is worshiped in Antipolo, visiting in the  Fray Bernardo Salvi
disguise of a beggar the holy and renowned Capitana o predecessor is Padre Damaso
Inez during her sickness." o also a franciscan
 Renaissance style by Arévalo, figures of 2 old women o thin and sickly, pensive, strict in religious duties,
 Piano in the sala careful of his name
 Women converse in monosyllables like rats and lizards o Venerable Tertiary Order vs Society of the Holy
 Duke of Alva in the roster of the Civil Guard Rosary
 Fray Sibyla – Dominican friar, curate of Binondo, o Senior sacristan made a small fortune selling
professor in San Juan de Letran, weighs his words o Punished subordinates with fines, vs Damaso who
o Left Kamiling settled with fists or a cane
 Fray Damaso – contrast to Sibyla, bare feet and hairy  Alferez was the rival to spiritual power
legs o Wife is Doña Consolacion
o Franciscan o Beat each other up beautifully
o Stayed in San Diego for 20 years, only been a few o Padre Salvi just prays
months since he left o “eh” stay, thick and rich; “ah” run, watered and thin
 Population of 6000 souls o Consolacion saw the curate disguised in piña camisa
 Knew everyone’s sins and salakot walking about late
 Abolition of the tobacco monopoly o Salvi would take revenge in a holy manner
o Interrupted when drinking a glass of sherry  Alferez will arrest sacristans
 Señor Laruja  Consolacion will take her stand in the window,
 “Santiago doesn't consider himself an Indian” never looked in the mirror
 Tinola makes you forgetful
 Dr. De Espadaña and Dra. Doña Victorina CHAPTER 16 SISA
 Damaso said gunpowder was invented by Padre  Remembering the dead: three masses said by each
Savalls in 7th century/14th, argued with Victorina priest and give two pesos
 Pay tribute to petty officials, clerks, and soldiers to
CHAPTER 3 THE DINNER sleep in peace
 Fray Damaso and Fray Sibyla  “Hast thou now promises only for the rich, for those
 Lt. stepped on the train of Victorina’s gown who, can pay thee?”
 highest secular official is inferior to a a friar-cook  Cicadas, gecko, dogs
(cedant arma togae)  Husband is a cock gamester
 Sibyla to Lt.: seat of honor belongs to you  “Weak in character, with more heart than intellect,
 Tinola for dinner she knew only how to love and to weep. Her husband
 Damaso received a bare beck and tough wing of was a god and her sons were his angels…”
chicken; Ibarra ate legs and breasts  “kayuamanguing-kaligátan”
 Ibarra went away for 7 years, last 2 in Germany and  Sewing until midnight: “poverty obliges one to sin!”
Russian Poland  Crispin is fond of fishes and milk, Basilio liked pork and
 Talked about languages duck
 Was pleased the most with Spain, then any free  A black dog appeared and Sisa stoned it
Europe
 Ibarra excused himself early
 Colonial Studies: friar’s soup; most unnecessary CHAPTER 17 BASILIO
person at a dinner is he who gives it, not allow  Basilio could not leave until 10 o’clock
Filipinos to leave the country, not teach them to read  Pablo is sick from scrubbing the barracks
 Ashes of life are called indifference o Tiago, alferez, gobernadorcillo, friars, employees,
 Dreamed that Crispin died; told Sisa that they went to young ladies sat according to inclinations
glean the rice-stalks  Captain-General will honor Tiago’s house, likes to give
 Basilio’s Plan surprises, will arrive 4 in the afternoon
o Doesn’t want to be a sacristan any longer  Alcalde composed verses in his youth
o wants to be a herdsman of Ibarra  In French: Alcalde wants a villa in the north for
o Plant in sugar-cane or corn summer, a mansion in Madrid, a property in Andalusia
o Crispin to go to study in Manila, Basilio will be a for winter
doctor  Filipino children were noisy, sins are more of omission
o Dreamt that Crispin was inside the bell hanging in a than commission
tree with a long rope, tied to a cow with a bird’s nest  Brother Mateo does not life, Pope Sextus was a herder
of carabaos in Batangas, Andoy has the face of St.
CHAPTER 18 SOULS IN TORMENT Vincent
 Seven o’clock and Salvi finished his last mass, three in  Petra’s son will be a great patriarch after learning
an hour, thought to be ill by the pious women business so quickly
 Sister Rufa – Matron of Sisterhood  “One whose son is a blessed Pope can commit sins!"
o Chewed a buyo  A countryman wants his son to be a doctor
o Plays heads or tails  Compares curates to doctors
o Lost a pig  Damaso thinks being an architects is easy
 Sister Sipa – toothless old woman o Said lay brothers constructed a hospital for only 8
o When a servant breaks a plate/glass/cup cuartos a day instead of 3 or 4 reals
 Sister Juana – young woman with a frank face,  Ibarra threatened Damaso when he was alluding to his
dedicated plenary indulgences to soul of her husband father, Maria Clara held him back
o Three each of paternosters, Ave Marias, Gloria Patris
 Brother Pedro wastes indulgences, knows how to get CHAPTER 35 COMMENTS
out of purgatory  “Each one, according to his moral lights, made his
 Padre Manuel Martin (Augustinian) vs Padre Damaso comments.”
 Crispin accused of stealing  Damaso is dead.
 Beat up a Spanish mestizo for leaving during the
CHAPTER 21 THE STORY OF A MOTHER sermon (did not understand Tagalog, said it was
 “The civil-guards are not men, they are civil-guards; Greek, went to Russia and pretended that he did not
they do not listen to supplications and they are understand the language of his fathers)
accustomed to see tears.”  Student does not approve the action of the Franciscan,
 “Mother of the thieves” said they must protest against actions
 “Leave me here to die!”  Don Filipo: Damaso and Ibarra exchanged parts
 Walk in between the guards, then walk ahead 20  Capitan Martin: “No one separated them except MC?”
paces  Capitan Basilio
 She feels a step lower in the social scale, lower than  Filipo: “They are always right because we always allow
concubines of the soldiers them to be.”
 Husband is a cabeza de barangay  Gobernadorcillo: “The friars are rich and united, while
 “The chicks have escaped, brought only the hen” we are divided and poor.”
 Alferez discredited the curate’s accusation, ordered  Capitana Maria: “It pleases me to see a son defend the
soldiers to release Sisa memory of his parents, Capitana Tinay.”; “A father’s
 Went to Tasio’s house but he wasn’t there, returned memory is most sacred!”
to her hut  Capitana Tinay has a son named Antonio, wouldn’t
 “The light of reason was flickering and about to be want to see his son if he denied his father
extinguished.”  Sister Rufa: “I would deny him my blessing!”
 “Perhaps Heaven had granted some hours of sleep  Capitana Tinny doesn’t want his son to study anymore
while the invisible wing of an angel, brushing over her  Capitana Maria would let his sons travel
pallid countenance, might wipe out the sorrows from  There won’t be a school anymore
her memory; perhaps such suffering was too great for  plibastiero, tarantado, sarayate, indio, betelapora,
weak human endurance, and Providence had ispichoso
intervened with its sweet remedy, forgetfulness.
However that may be, the next day Sisa wandered CHAPTER 39 DOÑA CONSOLACION
about smiling, singing, and talking with all the  Medusa or Muse of the Civil Guard
creatures of wood and field.”  Veins in her forehead conduct vinegar and gall
CHAPTER 34 THE DINNER  Don Francisco de Cañamaque takes her for a
 Alcalde and Ibarra on ends of the dinner table mankukúlam
o Right: Maria Clara, Left: escribano
 Dressed as a querida of the soldiers, Espedaña did not
allow her to attend mass
 Sisa was treated kindly after the alferez’ orders
 Pretended not to know Tagalog: orofea
 Mispronounced Felipinas as Pilipinas during her
wedding, but was actually Filipinas
 Alonso Saavedra, Sgt. Gomez explained modernizing
yourself (Frenchified)
 No longer spoke of any language, expressed herself by
means of signs
 Sisa sang the Song of the Night, was asked to stop
because the verses hurt her, then asked to dance
 Alferez asked Sisa to stop dancing and that the
servants attend to her, to be sent to Ibarra’s house,
then he and Consolacion fought

CHAPTER 42 THE ESPADAÑAS

 The fiesta is over, people felt overworked
 Maria Clara is sick
 Aunt Isabel
 Cross of Tunasan or Cross of Matahong
 Cousins Sinang and Victoria, Andeng
 Dr. Guevara performed a delivery, charged 50 pesos
 Doctors and a distant relative of Damaso arrived
(godson of a relative, Don Alfonso Linares de
Espadaña)
 Victorina is 45 (32), Tiburcio is 35
 Spent their honeymoon in Santa Ann
 Victorina de los Reyes de De Espadaña
 Rodoreda received an order to engrave on a slab of
black marble
 Ex is Capitan Tiago
 Padre Salvi joined the Doctors
 Linares dined with The Duke of La Torte
 Painting in Clarita’s Room: Virgin of Antipolo
 “Lichen with milk in the morning, syrup of
marshmallow, two cynoglossum pills!”

CHAPTER 45 THE HUNTED

 Elias is looking for Capitan Pablo (father figure, lost a
son)
 The den of tulisanes looked like the Tower of Hunger
on the eve before Ugolino devoured his sons
 Pablo lost both of his sons when accused of robbery by
Padre Damaso
 Elias has a fear of injuring the innocent
 Pablo will send a man to the beach at San Diego in 4
days