V--2nd, Chap 9 sferics

[alice wellintown]

>
> At the same time that the center of Western Music's core values were
> abrading against the creative impulses of the best and brightest, science,
> ever moving forward, manages to elicit sounds never heard by sober white
> people before.

Again, Poe's story, "The Mask of the Red Death" is always mentioned
with this cjapter in _V._, and Poe's only novel, _Pym_ as the
influential whiteness of the pale beyond, but it is "The Fall of the
House of Usher" that influences the music themes here.