El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script Info

(Silence. Isagani steps back.)

(turning sharply) Then build me a bomb.

The pen is a sword that cuts the writer first. (He puts down the skull, leans close to Isagani.) Listen to me, boy. I have seen your uncle, Padre Florentino. He hides in his chapel, praying. Prayers do not break chains. El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21 Script

(firmly) I will not help you. I would rather be a fool with a clean heart than a wise man with a grave.

A stone. Beautiful, but cold.

He taught me that force begets only more force.

(laughs dryly) Cold. Like the Filipino’s heart, they say. But you, Isagani – you still believe it can burn? (Silence

(cutting him off) Reforms are bandages on a corpse. Your “form” – the Filipino – is already dead. What walks around is a ghost. (He picks up the skull.) This was a man. He wrote petitions. He believed in justice. They killed him anyway.