Outside, it was raining pianos: anxiousfaced, tumbling steinways reflected in his mottled blue irises, the lenses of his spectacles twitching upon each explosion, inkblack hair sleeked down in a immaculate shell, a brown rep necktie fastened by a lopsided windsorknot strangulating his pate (his face puffing, somewhat rubefacting with stress), yet his windowpane pantlegs churning […]