Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
~~
~
father a f.ln11Crloo born at the turn of the century and a soldier miting potang beiigi.O sigue, Cadio," and there is the rustle of feet
dying'in the SecOnd :Asian War: he wakens to the cool.ness of wind departing across the sand.~'Si Tio daytay tao,Tatang?"asks Dom-
on his face, and then he sees, as he has seen it at this hour for ing. Arcadia Nagbuya stares into the dark, in the direction where
unnumbered evenings, the Magellan Space Station rising in the west, his cousin has gone, his heart warm and beating rapidly. Dolfo
a bright solitary'star among the night clouds. repeats his brother's question, blit their father remains silent, and
they start off for the trail in the coconut grove beyond the sandy
THE RIVER AT NIGHT. Pedring does not take everyone across slope of the riverbank. The Magellan Space Station has cleared the
all at once but makes two trips: the river has risen a' few feet and tops of the trees, and a smaller, fainter star is moving away from it:
the raft: is too small to carry all of them gathered on the riverbank. another nuclear spaceship going to Mars or perhaps only to the
The women and the old. folks go first: a baby cries on and on, moon, now a sharp-pointed sickle in the eastern sky.
bleating like a lamb in the small orange glow of the lamp suspended
in the middle of the raft, in the night astir with the croaking offrogs
and the black whispering flow of the river. Then it is theirtum, and
Arcadio Nagbuya and his two sons squat close to the lamp, clutch-
ing their paper-wrapped bundles, the water slafJping at the raft,
sucking and gurgling under the glistening platform of bamboo poles.
The men with them do not ans\"er when Pedring asks where they
are from: one of them, Arcadia Nagbuya notices in the lamplight, is
cradling a laser rifle wrapped loosely in a raincoat.