Kraus < IRQ: There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman’s shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
It’s probably time for an update of Gogol’s Diary/Memoirs of a madman: the protagonist thinks he’s safely in a loonybin, not recognising Barcelona.
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Another Kraus favourite: What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?
Curiously it appears elsewhere but not on his German Wikiquote page: Was ist die Neunte Symphonie neben einem Gassenhauer, den ein Leierkasten und eine Erinnerung spielen!
There’s no doubt, however, that the reference is actually to a Drehorgel/barrel organ.
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