What else needs to be removed from a hard drive that could rate its own episode of HOARDERS?
From 1998, a collection of usenet postings on the state of completion of the finale of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Why have I a collection, etc.? Because I was writing a story that might have concluded with transcendental intelligences from the universal unconscious granting my protagonist a performance of the completed work from the realm of Platonic Forms, that's why.
Of course, that ending sort of hinged on the mistaken impression that Bruckner hadn't started it, whereas it seems he nearly finished it. Apparently he numbered the measures all the way to the end, and roughs exist of nearly the entire section.
I eventually picked a completion done by William Carragan, which was good enough for me -- I mean, since it's clear that Anton didn't write the finale as a pipe-organ concerto structure -- although Mr Google now informs me that Sir Simon Rattle has led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a Carnegie Hall¹ performance of the latest revision by Nicola Samale, John Phillips, Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, and Giuseppe Mazzuca, which I gather incorporates some previously lost pages of the manuscript that turned up in 2003.
Just beneath NINTHNOTES.TXT is FORCES.TXT, containing information on the four basic forces (electromagnetic, gravitational, strong nuclear, weak nuclear) because the aforementioned protagonist was trying to figure out which one would be the most effective one to suppress in order to make the sun explode. Which is why he would eventually be granted a performance of the finale of Bruckner 9.
I think I must have been reading Philip K Dick.
¹ I wonder if anyone thought to bus the orchestra over to the Bronx to get their pictures taken on Bruckner Boulevard...
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