Jose Saramago’s Stone Raft is about a group of traveling individuals trying to adapt to the stark reality that the big island where they live, the Iberian Peninsula, is literally drifting away from Europe. I thought of Saramago’s novel and tried to imagine the consequences if a similar magical thing would happen in the Philippine archipelago. Instead of drifting away from Asia, the 7,107 islands which comprise our nation-state will start to merge to become one big island.

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