Olympic torches on a Parisian bus reminded me of Josep Pla, smoking merrily away on oil tankers in the famous 1976 A fondo interview with Joaquín Soler Serrano:
[Full video seems to have disappeared, so these are a couple of excerpts]
Not having heard other recordings, I wonder whether don José wasn’t playing up the accent for the occasion.
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