I'm not saying he's faking. I'm just saying I don't believe it.
The article's been updated since I first read it, and reluctantly admits he's not the virtuoso the popular press made him out to be, but that's really still not enough to assuage my suspicions.
Anonymous 20-something, found in a black suit and tie with the labels removed, who insists on playing the piano as often as possible and refuses to communicate with doctors and therapists? I'm not purposely taking the wood axe to anyone's sense of childlike wonder, here, but that's not how life works.
And the photograph isn't helping. He looks like he's auditioning for Sean Penn's part in I Am Sam. And knows it.
My hoax sense is tingling.
