V COLON ALMA MAHLER REVISITED BY ARCHY

BOSS I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE COMPUTERS THE CAPS
LOCK IS DOWN AND I CAN'T SEE WHERE IT IS BECAUSE THE KEYBOARD IS
NOT ON A SLANT BUT I DISCOVERED THIS ARTICLE I THINK YOU MIGHT
FIND INTERESTING COLON
'…SHORTLY AFTER THEIR ENGAGEMENT MAHLER EMBARKED ON A
CONCERT TOUR DURING WHICH HE WROTE A SUCCESSION OF
GRANDILOQUENTLY TENDER LETTERS. ALMA MAHLER PUBLISHED ALL
OF THEM--WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FATEFUL LETTER WRITTEN ON
DECEMBER 20TH 1902 IN DRESDEN. IN THIS LENGTHY AND EXTREMELY
EARNEST MISSIVE MAHLER EXPLAINED TO ALMA THAT, IF SHE WISHED
TO BE HIS COMPANION, SHE WOULD HAVE TO FORGO HER CREATIVE
AMBITIONS…ALMA GAVE WAY AND MADE THE PLEDGE WHICH MAHLER
WAS ASKING OF HER…FOR EIGHT-AND-A-HALF YEARS MAHLER'S WIFE
REGARDED HIS MUSIC AS HER OWN, SHARED HIS SUCCESSES AND
FAILURES, EVEN ON OCCASIONS COPIED HIS MUSIC FOR HIM. IN THE
SUMMER OF 1910 THE SMOULDERING MARITAL CRISIS BROKE OUT INTO
THE OPEN AND MAHLER WAS CONFRONTED WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT
HE COULD LOSE THE WOMAN HE LOVED. ONE DAY IN TOBLACH ALMA
RETURNED HOME FROM A WALK TO HEAR HER HUSBAND PLAYING AND
SINGING HER LIEDER. YEARS LATER SHE WAS TO WRITE 'THE COFFIN
CONTAINING THESE CREATURES WAS A FOLDER WHICH I TOOK WITH ME
TO OUR SUMMER RESORT EVERY SPRING AND BROUGHT BACK TO
VIENNA EVERY AUTUMN. I HAD NEVER REALLY COME TO TERMS WITH
THE SITUATION…' ENDNOTE

there it is
the caps lock
i mean
i don't know what
to make of
this boss
i don't think i deserve
credit
for what they
wrote