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A 1930s adult learning classroom at which adults sit in rows at desks, reading. Their heads have all been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' HAL also stares through the overhead windows. Behind the glass stand two sinister boss figures in smart suits, overseeing the reading people. A vintage Penguin paperbacks logo peeks out of one corner. The two photos on the walls have been replaced; the left one shows a medieval reeve figure taken from a tapestry, gesturing imperiously with his stick. The right one shows a stoop-backed peasant, harvesting a sheaf of wheat with a scythe. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1930s adult learning classroom at which adults sit in rows at desks, reading. Their heads have all been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' HAL also stares through the overhead windows. Behind the glass stand two sinister boss figures in smart suits, overseeing the reading people. A vintage Penguin paperbacks logo peeks out of one corner. The two photos on the walls have been replaced; the left one shows a medieval reeve figure taken from a tapestry, gesturing imperiously with his stick. The right one shows a stoop-backed peasant, harvesting a sheaf of wheat with a scythe. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1930s adult learning classroom at which adults sit in rows at desks, reading. Their heads have all been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' HAL also stares through the overhead windows. Behind the glass stand two sinister boss figures in smart suits, overseeing the reading people. A vintage Penguin paperbacks logo peeks out of one corner. The two photos on the walls have been replaced; the left one shows a medieval reeve figure taken from a tapestry, gesturing imperiously with his stick. The right one shows a stoop-backed peasant, harvesting a sheaf of wheat with a scythe. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en