The way people talk about Popoy Lagman reminds me of how characters in A Song of Ice and Fire talk about Rhaegar Targaryen. We never meet Rhaegar and we only learn of him from other characters, just as the youth activists of today only learn of Popoy from story and memory. We are like Daenerys Targaryen, not the conquering-liberating queen, but Dany the orphan, who only learns of her family and heritage from others. This is the character of the Rejectionist left in the Philippines today: as orphans to a legacy we can only learn about from others. Like Dany, we are born already alienated from our legacy. And as Dany ruminates, “If I look back, I am lost,” so too are we lost in the maze of legacies and shadows, taking out poetry, not from the future, but from the past. In the same way, the Philippine left still debates over the present as if it were the past, questions of “semi-feudalism” or “backwards” capitalism. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” We are simultaneously orphaned from yet still imprisoned by heritage and legacy.