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A review by zarvindale
The El Bimbo Variations by Adam David
5.0
I was introduced to this book by one of my editors at the campus paper I was a staff of back in college. My editor uploaded a copy of it to our group on Facebook out of sincerity, to help us fend off any sense of trepidation that we might have been facing at the time as writers. Suffice to say: I bore witness to the various editions of this book. I bore witness to the changes, to the additions that have appeared up to this new edition under Paper Trail Projects.
I consider this as Adam David’s ambitious literary exercise. He was eager in interepreting a single yet popular line from an equally popular song by the Filipino band Eraserheads, and that eagerness translated fruitfully. He uses, manipulates both the printed text and images to spew more than a hundred variations of “Kamukha mo si Paraluman noong tayo ay bata pa.” Through this undertaking, he showcases his talent, his knowledge of established yet unfamiliar concepts that govern writing, and his wit. The El Bimbo Variations is a challenging book to finish, but he was clearly up to the challenge to stretch his creativity and imagination, and to entertain as well as inspire writers to rise above the literary and structural restraints in order to emphasize the “creative” in creative writing.
I consider this as Adam David’s ambitious literary exercise. He was eager in interepreting a single yet popular line from an equally popular song by the Filipino band Eraserheads, and that eagerness translated fruitfully. He uses, manipulates both the printed text and images to spew more than a hundred variations of “Kamukha mo si Paraluman noong tayo ay bata pa.” Through this undertaking, he showcases his talent, his knowledge of established yet unfamiliar concepts that govern writing, and his wit. The El Bimbo Variations is a challenging book to finish, but he was clearly up to the challenge to stretch his creativity and imagination, and to entertain as well as inspire writers to rise above the literary and structural restraints in order to emphasize the “creative” in creative writing.