The line about the Belvedere crystals is great because it brings to mind a few things, some of which you've mentioned above-
1) Broken crystals are going to be cutting up his hands, so he's bleeding all over the piano
2) If he has fistfuls of them, he can't do more than pound at the piano with closed hands, so he's just raising a ruckus to drown out his memories
3) Crystal glass makes me think of wine or liquor, so it could be a metaphor for drinking away the pain- or saying that drinking the pain away or playing the pain away via music are related
Man... Ritter is amazing. One line and he can conjure up all that.
The line about the Belvedere crystals is great because it brings to mind a few things, some of which you've mentioned above-
1) Broken crystals are going to be cutting up his hands, so he's bleeding all over the piano
2) If he has fistfuls of them, he can't do more than pound at the piano with closed hands, so he's just raising a ruckus to drown out his memories
3) Crystal glass makes me think of wine or liquor, so it could be a metaphor for drinking away the pain- or saying that drinking the pain away or playing the pain away via music are related
Man... Ritter is amazing. One line and he can conjure up all that.