Thread: Literary Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal
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Old 11-22-2014, 12:42 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by ccowie View Post
I'm up and down with this one as well. I enjoy sections, find them funny and interesting and then I'm just bored for a while.

Part of it is that I'm having a harder time than usual getting consistent images in my mind - houses, streets, clothing etc. I just don't have much of a frame of reference.
I understand how you feel. This website had some fantastic photos that helped me visualize the time period. "30 vintage pictures of people and places in and around Manila, Philippines from the late 1800s to early 1900s."
http://www.philippine-history.org/pi...old-manila.htm

Here are some old maps of Manila and its suburbs.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histo...burbs_1898.jpg
http://www.greatwhitefleet.info/A%20...old-Manila.jpg
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