The Diary of Jose Rizal - 9108 Words

MADRID -- 1 JANUARY 1883 - NOVEMBER 1884 1st January 1883 Night, I dont know what vague melancholy, an indefinable loneliness, smothers my soul. It is similar to the profound sadness that cities manifest after a tumultuous rejoicing, to a city after the happiest celebration. Two nights ago, that is, 30 December, I had a frightful nightmare when I almost died.1 I dreamed that, imitating an actor dying on the stage, I felt vividly that my breath was failing and I was rapidly losing my strength. Then my vision became dim and dense darkness enveloped me -- they were the pangs of death. I wanted to shout and ask for help from Antonio Paterno, feeling that I was about to die. I awoke weak and breathless. The last day of the year I spent at†¦show more content†¦3He lost in the card game. 4Paterno, Calero, Perio, and Lete. LINK 2 comments CALAMBA TO BARCELONA -- 1 MAY to 16 JUNE 1882 THREE LETTERS HOME Suez Canal, 7 June [1882] My dear Parents, The last letter I wrote you was at Aden before disembarking. This will inform you about the rest. I went down at Aden, which, as I have told you perhaps, is a town of little importance by itself, but it is important to the steamers that take on coal there. The town is composed of numerous hillocks and rocks, all bare and arid, without even a plant, on which stand some lonely and gloomy houses, white indeed, but with a funereal aspect. The ground, like its sun, is hot and hard; the wind, loaded with burning sand, disturbs now and then the quietness of its well-made but deserted streets. At intervals and as if forcing itself to enliven those places, can be seen camels walking majestically and rhythmically, tall and big, forming a contrast to the humble asses some of which are very short, like a hog, of abrupt and somewhat hasty pace. Everywhere is death, neither a root nor a leaf. Only man perhaps in order to give a proof of his power, lives there where plants cannot; but, alas, its only to give a spectacle of his poverty and degradation, compelled as he is to contend with the gran ite for his existence. But English power is worthy of its name and it opens there two beautiful tunnels one of which is as long as the distance from CapitanaShow MoreRelatedJose Rizal Was Jack the Ripper?3298 Words   |  14 PagesAndrea P. Mateo Jose Rizal was Jack the Ripper? Jose Rizal is the national hero of the Philippines, one of the Southeast Asian countries. His full name was Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda, the well-loved Philippine national hero, and the brave known genius was famous and will remain famous worldwide. I don’t know if you’ve heard about him, but of course if you’re a Filipino, you surely know him well because he’s a big part of the Philippine history. 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