Tom Hanks, We Need You!

If Tom Hanks could decipher Da Vinci’s puzzles, he could surely solve this riddle, penned by Chicago Sun-Times critic Andrew Patner.

Brendel [...] plays these works as he hears them and as he imagines the authors themselves heard them...

But this is how they hear/heard them, which is the reason why I’d like to employ Tom Hanks:

--clear expressions of direct lines made mobile, regardless of complexity, by an animating, forward-moving spirit.

Just let that soak in, Tom. Get back to me in a week or two when you’ve figured this out. I’ll even pay for your therapy afterwards.
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