Goodreads asked M. Gaspary:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

M. Gaspary I would love to return to the prehistoric Philippines when the country was free from all the colonial powers that ultimately destroyed the people's identities. Based on research, before the Spanish colonizers came, the inhabitants of the land had the riches to afford anything. They wore gold as if it were an ordinary piece of jewelry because gold was everywhere.

However, this all changed after the whites came to our land and looted everything they could get. After stealing all the riches and stirring bloodshed in our land, they took those riches as theirs and returned to their homeland, Spain, as if nothing happened.

So, if I had the choice to travel to any fictional book world, this is where I want to go. To see what kind of life a Filipino could have had if it weren't for those assaults we'd received from the West.

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