Elderly Catalan sisters (?), overheard at the CaixaForum exhibition of Cultural Revolution photos by Li Zhensheng:
– It’s dreadful that they made educated people work in the fields like that, building ditches and threshing grain.
– There’s an Englishman living near us. He used to be a professor, but now he just grows vegetables and chickens.
– Les anglais sont fous.
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