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This is Roel Christian Yambao’s personal reading and writing archive, a commonplace of notes, excerpts, and occasional essays.
2026
Notes on von Balthasar’s
Dare we hope, ‘that all men be saved?’
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19/2
Some notes on salvation
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11/2
2025
From Aelred of Rievaulx’s
De spirituali amicitia
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4/8
Habemus Papam
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9/5
Salvation as spectator sports, or some readings in St Thomas
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28/1
2024
On the untenability of the doctrine of
sola scriptura
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10/11
Ezra Vogel’s
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
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21/10
Graduate school dispatch no. 2: free groups
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30/9
Poem after Li Bai
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23/4
Two death poems
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6/4
2023
Les fleurs du mal, 37–38
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25/12
Three years into exile (2021)
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6/12
Graduate school dispatch no. 1: Cyclic groups
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24/5
2022
Vowel devoicing in French
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27/1
2021
Ghost-hunting, patchouli, and life update
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2/11
Faye Wong at the mall
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25/10
Marginalia (October 2015)
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17/3
2020
Notes written while watching an episode of
Bojack Horseman
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19/12
To Charlie, who died before we could be friends
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9/12
Missive no. 45
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6/11
NB = nota bene = nuclear brightness
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2/9
Vertigo
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30/6
2019
November 2019
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10/12
Confissões de Guilherme O.—
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2/11
Joaquim Moura na terra do sol
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28/10
Yoga, &c.
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28/4
2017
Frances Ha-ha-ha
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29/8
Weird elephants / Neuilly / concept album
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31/5
‘Paghayo’ ni Anna Akhmatova (2)
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30/5
Ai Weiwei & other visions of New York
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22/5
This is the stuff of nightmares
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1/3
Biografía de Carlos Gómez Álava
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12/1
2016
A translation of Bienvenido Santos’ ‘Scent of apples’
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5/11
Ballade
for Regina Spektor
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12/9
Bitter cherries
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4/9
Who shall know the name of the wind?
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29/8
Trois contes
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22/8
Simian devils
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7/8
The wanderer
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19/7
The story of the luckless man, Ch’ien-hsi
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23/6
Vignette on the occasion of Sara Pereiro’s 25th birthday
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22/6
Poem in three paragraphs
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20/6
Pablito Miranda, gangster of sorts
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17/6
2015
To the veiled one: an ode
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20/3
Other projects (inactive):
Iridian (conlang)
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Grad school mathematics notes
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