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by José Rizal

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In San Diego’s Catholic cemetery, two Rizal’s characteristic use of ellipses in

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men are digging a grave. One the gravedigger’s dialogue indicates
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complains to the other, who is a more that the gravedigger is saying
experienced gravedigger, about the something of importance, and one can
fact that they are digging into the site intuit that the body he’s referring to is
of a recent grave. The experienced Don Rafael’s, since it has already been
gravedigger makes fun of his noted that Don Rafael’s corpse was
companion, saying, “If you had dug up exhumed. The fact that he justifies
a twenty-day-old corpse the way I digging up a body by saying that the
have, at night, in the dark, in the rain… head priest ordered him to do it once
and my lantern went out…The coffin again shows the absurd power of the
came open and the body almost came San Diego friars, who can seemingly “Would not have
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out. It stunk. And we had to carry it…” demand anything. Literature without the
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gravedigger doesn’t know, and the old
man berates him, accusing him of not
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