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The investigation into the origins of the jar of pickled fingers found resting atop the piano in the coffee-break room of the meeting location of the 148th Internationale had not made any sort of waves in the press. Nonetheless, it had had the effect of creating an immense headache for Eloise Toft, who had been the first one to find the jar, and, who, after gazing in motionless absorption at the yellowing briny vat of digital decomposition for some time, sat quietly at the piano, began softly to play the dense chordal improvisations of McCoy Tyner's 'Afro Blue' solo.
