
The steamer Tabo labours up the Pasig with friars and officials on the shaded upper deck and students crowded below. You play Basilio, a medical student carrying a petition for a school the men upstairs keep reviewing rather than refusing. When the talk turns to a canal, a jeweller in blue-tinted glasses proposes removing the villages in its way, then comes down one step to ask you, quietly, how you tell a cause from a symptom.
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