The more poignant of the tributes to literary great Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died at 87 last week, covered a broader range and adequately touched on his often-overlooked short stories. The tributes were spot on. Indeed, to those raised in societies with varying shades of darkness, depravity and bankruptcy, what Garcia Marquez wrote in the short stories do not belong to the canvas of magical realism but are brutal realities in places grossly backward and wanting in civic virtues.
“One of These Days,” one of the better known of his short stories, is about a theme that is definitely our own, astoundingly relevant and timely in this new century and in our own context of orgiastic corruption and impunity. After reading the short story, you will perfectly understand these three cultures in the Philippine bureaucracy:
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