“If one will read Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Jose Rizal depicted a Pasig River that was vibrant, full of life… because in its waters, we see reflections of our dreams and our history, and ...

He was reading it shortly after Noli Me Tangere had come out; Dekker himself had died the year before. In a December 6th letter to Blumentritt (who, of course, had never heard of the book), Rizal ...