i’m not buying that crap for a minute! have you ever been to germany? i’ll bet there’s no such place. you can’t believe everything you know, you know. next you’ll be telling us the president of the united states is really a trained chimpan… uh, never mind.
“Now it is suggested that he merely tapped at one key repeatedly.”
And chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and chopsticks and ....
the two things which i loved were
1) the stories i heard a while back about him entertaining the staff on many occasions with this profound piano playing. even the times story says “his only means of communication appeared to be through his musical virtuosity,” when as it turns out he’d play one key repetitively. farking high-larious.
2) the theories about his identity and problem. the ideas about his identity were all over the map but with one connecting thread they were all highly romanticized. all he really did was draw a picture of a piano! what if he’s drawn a wolf? would everyone assume he’d been a feral child? the theories about his problem? “Psychiatrists believed that he was suffering either from post-traumatic stress disorder or a form of autism.” hahaha! meanwhile he was simply not talking. awesome.
also love this quote: ““A nurse went into his room last Friday and said ‘Are you going to speak to us today?’ He simply answered ‘Yes, I think I will.’” hee hee hee.
one odd thing: the story in the mirror kept referring to him as a “gay german.” over and over. what does that have to do with anything?