November 5, 2023

Dear Nathaniel,

Before you leave,
Please turn off the hot water heater,
Please turn off the submersible water pump,
Please drain the hot watertank into a sump,
Please drain the blue pressure tank into a sump,
Please open all hot and all cold water faucets in the kitchen
and in the sinks, tubs and showers of each of the four bathrooms,
Unless otherwise directed by Klemens, please pour NO antifreeze 
NOR any windshield washerfluid into any sinks shower stalls or bathtubs,
Please make sure all windows are closed and locked,
Please make sure all doors are closed and locked,
Please leave no lights turned on except one light in the upstairs bathroom 
next to the kitchen and leave the door to that bathroom open,
Please reposition all video cameras which you deflected into the positions in which you found them.
Thank you, and please forgive my being so compulsive.

Please feel no need:
a) to answer this letter,
b) to read the attached draft of the first act
of the Il Secreto opera which you suggested.

I have spent all my waking hours since you left working on a libretto which might just turn out longer than Die Meistersinger, I contemplate the second act to describe the discovery that the manuscripts are largely illegible, and arrange to have the opera reconstructed by artificial intelligence.  Once that reconstruction is complete, an immaculate copy of Carterielli's original is discovered.  I contemplate as the third act a competition between the AI opera and the historic opera, with appropriate musical and social implications.

Please feel no obligation to spend any time on any of this.  I conclude that I'm afflicted with oneiroid insanity, which is a mental illness in which dreams and imaginings are the criteria of reality. Not worth your while to take seriously.
Have a safe and comfortable trip back. Love Jochen