Thanks, for reading, @Kenny-crane. K is an endlessly fascinating guy, something of a saint and rebel, at the same time. His life story is an enactment of Yeat's (not necessarily true) proposal that we must choose between the perfection of the life or the work.

Worthwhile to consider alternative outcomes. What, indeed, would have happened had they wed? Would he not have written or would he have written, differently --perhaps, even better?