There's a baby grand piano in the outer seating area of the radiology department of UW hospital,  and I'm sitting right next to it while waiting for grandma's MRI. I really wish someone were playing it.  That said, at least I'm starting a Haruki Murakami novel I've not yet read as my purse book! (Killing Commendatore; written in 2017, translated into English from the Japanese in 2018.) Murakami is my absolute favorite contemporary magical realism philosophical author - his imagery is so evocative, the phrasing so beautifully rendered into English,  and his uncanny surrealist realism is so delightful!  I save books by authors I love for specific times - you can reread a book as many times as you want,  but you only get the joy of discovery of the first time reading it once! 

"I sat back down on the sofa,  ready to draw a picture of the man with no face.  But I had no idea where to begin, or how to get started.  There was only a void, and how are you supposed to give form to something that does not exist? " (p.  4)

"It all seemed like a short dream.  But I knew very well that it wasn't. If this was a dream,  then the world I'm living in itself must all be a dream." (p.  5)

Now if I had piano music to go with my Murakami,  it would be perfection! Especially if I had piano music with my Murakami first read AND this weren't a hospital during a pandemic with a highly infectious variant mutation with a high breakthrough rate even among the vaccinated, so my blueberry green tea waiting for me in the car could be in my hand to be sipped while reading!