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Piano
“
Time slows. The attic disappears. Jutta disappears. Has anyone ever
spoken so intimately about the very things Werner is most curious about?
Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them
before they close forever, and then a piano comes on, playing a lonely
song that sounds to Werner like a golden boat traveling a dark river, a
progression of harmonies that transfigures Zollverein: the houses turned
to mist, the mines filled in, the smokestacks fallen, an ancient sea
spilling
...more
”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“
Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?” he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. “It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.
”
― Teller
― Teller
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