As a Daft Punk album cover can so easily remind us that we are Human After All

Regalado (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) wrote a large number of short treatises, many of which he disguised as free-verse poetry, on what appeared to be a seasonal form of depression, a gnawing emptiness which would only emerge either near the end of a collegiate semester or during the week-to-month long break that followed it, the temporary halt in academic affairs possibly hearkening back to the days when Jewish craftsmen who, in honor of the Sabbath, would put down their tools and snore in the timbre of a Latino siesta, creating a cacophony that would make even the most clueless postmodernist proud of his clueless-ness. The time-defined nature of his depression appears in the fact that most of the entries in the browned and blackened pages of his websites coincide with the latter parts of a conventional University of the Philippines semester, as well as with the break that follows one.

It perplexes the mind, however, to note that the author of these treatises, who possibly wrote them for the posterity of the phenomenon leaving him as he left the life of a college student, was discovered to still be beset by the very same wave of gloom that always seemed to have arrived right on schedule every time. Not only this, but the depression seemed to evolve along with him, adapting to the three-semester schedule used by the school he taught in instead of the conventional two-semester schedule his insomniac eyes used to read, write and study to.

Amidst these discoveries, it is to no small wonder that the author of these treatises has always sought sabbatical, sought Sabbath, in all manner of ways, from harboring all sorts of inanities and insanities to comfort foods and to writing even more treatises on his condition. His latest treatise is one that is all about his previous ones, as well as about a phenomenal depression which beset him as of the time of this writing.

REFERENCES:

Regalado, Franco Antonio. Turris Eburnea: Ivory Tower. Retrieved from http://francoocnarf.blogspot.com. Blogger: 2005.

Regalado, Franco Antonio. (no title). Retrieved from http://ocknarf.multiply.com. Multiply: 2007.