The Piano Tuner Pages 1

The quotes that I listed on this page are as follows;

What poem. Any poem, sir, I know them all, but for you I have a special poem, the poem is old and it is from Burma, where they call it "The Tale of the Journey of the leip-bya" but I only call it "The Butterfly Spirit" for I have adapted it myself, it is only one anna. You know I am going to Burma. How? I know, for I know the direction of stories, my poems are the daughters of prophecy.

He dreamed. He dreamed that he was riding a Shan pony, that they were galloping, that in the pony's hair were twisted flowers that spun in the air like pinwheels as they moved through the paddy, past costumed ghosts, choreographed flashes of color against an infinite green.