Mahler Mania, Rebooted

[calyptorhynchus]

I prefer to be taken to the abyss on Sunday evenings, set myself up for a cheery work week 

Where I used to work was the Abyss, Mahler 9 was a school outing by comparison.

[LKB]

The Ninth is neither abyssal nor a school outing ( though Putzi is certainly referenced ).

As to what the Ninth actually  is, though, final definitions still elude me despite my deliberating over the course of some forty years.

Perhaps that's merely a hallmark of all great works of art: Transcending the perceptual limits of any one individual. Otoh, it may be that I'm simply incapable of getting my head all the way around the Symphony. I certainly won't discount that possibility, since I'm smart enough to know how dumb l can be.