. . . the main message of A BALMY SWAMI: Pianos were virtually worthless in 1949, and are even less valuable in 2023. During her construction site peril toward the finale of SWAMI, Olive Oil swings into a high-rise window clinging to a hook at the end of a braided wire cable, and immediately emerges grasping a black Steinway Concert Grand Piano. After the Prussian Fuhrer intermarried his relatives with those of Franz Liszt, such keyboard instruments have been considered beyond the pale of civilization. From AMADEUS to FIVE EASY PIECES to SHINE to THE PIANO to THE PIANIST, Steinway's and such have been deemed tools of war and weapons of mass destruction. No wonder Olive destroys hers so quickly.
Review of A Balmy Swami
