Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

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Author: Juan R. Francisco
Price: PhP 300 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 1994
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This book "traces the journey of the Ramayana from India to the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. [It] brings out how the story... changed as the epic journeyed beyond India under the influence of the local cultural ethos in different countries."