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GALLIMARD: The Chinese are an incredibly arrogant people.
HELGA: They warned us about that in Paris, remember?
GALLIMARD: Even Parisians consider them arrogant. That’s a switch.
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HELGA: Politics again? Why can’t they just hear it as a piece of beautiful music? So, what’s in their opera?
GALLIMARD: I don’t know. But whatever it is, I’m sure it must be old.
For the full scene, see the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, Penguin Books, 1988, pp 18-19.
Howlround Theatre Commons: M. Butterfly from 1988 to 2017
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