From today's silly story on CNN about the "Piano Man":

Interpreters from Poland, Latvia and Lithuania were brought in to see if he was from Eastern Europe, and possibly an asylum seeker, but no-one could get through to him.

If he were willing or capable of communicating in any known language, would he not have written something down before now?

Every time some movie comes out, dull-looking people rush up and say "It's nothing like the book; you really have to read it", etc. One immediately feels trapped in some terrible putzatory, there to be tortured by sneering bores for eternity, but the point is valid. Movies are never like their sources. For example, Tarkovsky's Solaris only contains certain elements of the novel by Stanislaw Lem. There are all sorts of other things in the book. But the movie is one more movie by Tarkovsky, and would probably make better sense if you watched them all several times.

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