There's mirth in the barn and the ha', the ha', / There's mirth in the barn and the ha': / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride's daftest of a', of a', / And our young bride's daftest of a'.

After the gentleman and Senator [Mariano Jesús] Cuenco interpellated me, I knew already that my bill was hopeless. That is why I presented that bill on February 4th, but it slept the sleep of the just in the Committee on Education.

But I felt unguilted as soon as I did it. It made the whole incident feel normal, run-of-the-mill.

Long minutes afterwards the sun disclosed itself, high above the earth's rim, over a vignetted bank of edgeless mist.