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Kaharian dramatizes the tension between the hole in the pocket and the hole in the heart.
“Talaga bang higit na mahalaga sa iyo ang iyong tagumpay kaysa sa tao?” Paolo asks his friend Ponce in mid-journey. And towards their journey’s end, he asks again, “Di ka ba nangangambang magising isang umaga, at matuklasang ika’y mali pala; na lahat ng tinapon mo’t inaksaya, ang siya palang tunay na mahalaga?”