It's 9:19pm. I started drinking beer at 12:45pm. I was day-drunk, fell asleep watching Sherlock, put my daughter to bed and now here I am, fresh as a newborn AA meeting.
This will probably all end once I'm employed again, but in the meantime, I've happily rolled down the Beethoven rabbit hole a few times and one such tumble, yesterday, in a grocery store parking lot on my phone, left me weepy and raw for this man.
Here is the Heiligenstadt Testament. In this heart-wrought letter to his brothers, Beethoven confesses the agony he's in as he begins to lose his hearing and feels cut off from his friends and his art.
http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyHeiligenstadtTestament.html
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