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[There are SPOILERS in this. And this is the warning.] Symbolisms Originally from Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. What is the TLDR version? okay TLDW: It is essentially about two sisters and a painting. Their dad made them a painting either to test them or to leave him alone. Zooming out a bit,  it is about a dysfunctional contemporary Filipino  family around the 1940's. The painting is described as an old man carrying a young man in his back, while the background is a city in flames. One character tells of it as being Troy. 

I have now forgotten why these were the resolutions I had noted earlier this year. It's funny because I kinda forgot about them anyway, but looking at it again, I realized I had completely veered off from what I originally intended to do.

It'll be Christmas soon and the year will wrap shortly.  There's something symbolic about natural endings. Symbolic may be the wrong term. Necessary. There's something necessary about natural endings. If the sun didn't set, people may not rest until exhaustion. If the year didn't end, who knows what people would keep on doing. Come to think of it. What would people keep on doing if the year didn't move and it just went on eternally?

In the pantheon of celebrity chefs nowadays, Anthony Bourdain has to be one of the most free-wheeling guys out there. He's probably living the life with the dream job of a travel-hungry college kid. He sports a travel TV show, an online series about excellent craftsmanship, and has written multiple books over the years. (I'm distilling his work too simply and too generally. I'm sure he's done way, way more than the last three sentences.)

To be completely honest, having seen the word persuasion in the book's sleeves I had thought this was going to be like an ancient Influence by Robert Cialdini . But boy, was I wrong. This was what I always imagined a long class in philosophy might be; a long afternoon class where Philosophy and Language had a love child. The TL:DR version is Aristotle writes that there are 3 kinds of Rhetoric; a couple ways to approach them, and how to structure and focus your messages.