Floy c quintos biography of abraham

“To me, Floy was a most constant supporter, a generous mentor, and a funny confidante.”

I look at the little wooden buddha on my desk, and I remember Floy Quintos. This was the last gift he gave me, one of the many “cheap and cheerful” things, as he would call it, that we exchanged, spurred in turn by my pasalubong to him from Japan: a book on folk gods and buddhas from northern Tohoku.

This trade of arcane finds has come to be our kind of love language over the years.

The curriculum for the Ph.D.

To me, Floy was a most constant supporter, a generous mentor, and a funny confidante. 

I first met him in 2012, when the Ateneo de Manila University Press invited me to design his collection of plays. He was an accomplished playwright and director, but I had not had the chance to see his plays at the time.

Given the scarce budgets of my student days, I had generally read more plays than seen them—and his, I discovered, were compelling, incisive, emotional. The book eventually came out in two volumes two years