Willy Loman's The Piano Torch

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following a month without any indication of his phantom collaborator, he has a total break down. His agent who has had increasing concerns of his lucidity arrives at the residence just as he is running about hysterically shouting and turning over the furniture frantically in what seems a final hopeless attempt to reunite with the specter. This is ample reason to permit the physician and his two burly accomplices brought along by he agent to overpower him bodily and bear him to the waiting ambulance to be restrained and driven to the hospital. But just as one assistant reaches for the door handle, it is sufficient for him to break free and rush back into the house. His objective is the cellar, where as in a dream the night preceding he hangs himself. Feeling beat, and understanding what he must do, he heads for the cellar however he hesitates all a sudden at the piano and his eyes flash blood red with derision and rage; he will indeed dispatch himself, but not before he elevates the piano bench and smash the dam keys of this devil. Hoisting the old wooden bench high over his head for the consummate destructive impact, the seat cover swings open and out spills …show more content…
The sheets that were in the piano bench were vintage, yes, but they were also blank. He simply wrote this music in a delirium. He informs him, his girlfriend has been inquiring about him, which surprises him, thinking she would had given him up as hopelessly mad. He returns to the house to pack and leave and calls his girl to expect him. She recommends that she would drive down and pick him up rather than taking the train back to the city. He concurs. When she arrives, she goes up to the door which is ajar, and enters the big house and calls for him. He advances downstairs in a dash and they caress and kiss. He tells her they have a lot to catch up on.... And he knows now what was wrong with him. They two seem buoyant and

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