The three guerillas finish their dinner, and Tata Matyas encourages them to sleep.

For some reason, Mando doesn’t want to sleep yet, so he and Tata Matyas engage in conversation:

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Mga Ibong Mandaragit opens with the Philippines in the second half of 1944, while I open a nearby Tagalog dictionary because the words Amado V. Hernandez used are beautifully new to me.

Now if only the printed version were clearer. Take, for example, the second sentence on page 1:

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