TY - BOOK AU - Remoto, Danton. TI - Seduction and solitude: essays SN - 9712703959 AV - PS 9993.R42 .Se29 1995b PY - 1995///];copyright 1995 CY - Pasig City PB - Anvil Pub. KW - Philippine essays (English) N2 - in "Letter from Britain", the writer explores the collision and the way "the Philippines" had been constructed in the minds of others; in "Translating Desire" the writer brings together reportage and commentary on the Philippine gay scene. The essay range from the writer attending (not joining!) the Miss Gay Philippine Five Prettiest to dissecting the gay bashing that recently blighted Philippine media; The book is divided into three parts: in "Landscape of Feeling", the writer returns to the past, capturing with pain and eloquence the faces and places long gone ER -