Thoroughly modern in its disregard of realism, El Greco's art feels contemporary even today. When I was 18, I wrote a postcard to my grandmother from Austria, describing how I slept for free on the porch of a hostel in Innsbruck.

‘Not too many people, except those in the industry, have noticed that the Aquino administration has a polluted policy on mining.’ The Bureau of Mines and Geosciences reported that the value of metal (meaning mineral) production last year dropped by a hefty 18 percent.