Steppenwolf Art and Culture Quotes

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Quote #10

And in fact, to my indescribable astonishment and horror, the devilish tin trumpet spat out, without more ado, a mixture of bronchial slime and chewed rubber; that noise that owners of gramophones and radios have agreed to call music. (661)

Poor Harry. His ultimate musical idol, Mozart, turns on Harry's biggest nightmare, the radio. The use of machinery to play classical music seems like blasphemy to Harry, kind of like the picture of Goethe that got him so riled up at his friend's house.