Player Piano
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008I like to work in lobbies of places I don’t belong. There are people bustling around, but I’m unlikely to know them. I blend in. There’s the right amount of noise. And sometimes older folks stop to talk to me, which creates nice, natural breaks in my work blocks.
My favorite lobby has a player piano in it. A man just stopped to ask me if I was familiar with this tune, and did I know it was from Madame Butterfly? “What a tear jerker! That poor girl! You know it? That Puccini!”
That Puccini! There’s a coffee stand nearby. It smells like coffee and chocolate and cinnamon… and that’s all. Now back to work.