TY - BOOK AU - Scott, William Henry TI - Chips SN - 9711003317 AV - PS 9993 .Sc86 1987 PY - 1987/// CY - Quezon City PB - New Day Publishers KW - Philippine essays (English) N2 - the prose in their original serial publications and the verse when I met William Henry Scott for the first time. I had been asked by Sedfrey A. Ordoñez to give a professional reading of it before the Marcos deportation board that was trying to make up its mind whether or not to deport Scotty. I helped make up its mind not to. Small in scale these essays may be but they're strong medicine: strong medicine, I call them, like Philip Larkin's poetry. The chips fall all the way from Sagada and they fall on everyone, everywhere, both highland and low.; Let the chips fall where they may. Ang tamaan huwag magalit. A chip off the old block. Small chip--big bite/byte. I had read most of these "little articles", including the Christmas Sonnet 1972, before ER -