The message of the story is that unhealthy obsession can result in drastic occurrences in a person’s life. Klausner was obsessed with his sound machine, not once was he seen in the story doing something else. His obsession with the machine kept him aloof from the actual world. Through through his unRead more
The message of the story is that unhealthy obsession can result in drastic occurrences in a person’s life. Klausner was obsessed with his sound machine, not once was he seen in the story doing something else. His obsession with the machine kept him aloof from the actual world. Through through his unhealthy obsession Klausner does shed some light on the fact that nature too has feelings just like the humans do, his obsession marked the climax of the story.
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According to Klausner, the human ear actually can’t hear everything. Any sounds that are so low-pitched or so high-pitched that one can’t hear it at all whereas a dog can. And up the scale, higher than the vibration of that a whistle, there is another vibration and it keeps going on, an endless succRead more
According to Klausner, the human ear actually can’t hear everything. Any sounds that are so low-pitched or so high-pitched that one can’t hear it at all whereas a dog can. And up the scale, higher than the vibration of that a whistle, there is another vibration and it keeps going on, an endless succession of vibrations as far as the numbers go, which is infinity. There is a whole world of sound about human all the time that we cannot hear. It is possible that up there in those high-pitched inaudible regions there is a new exciting music being made, with subtle harmonies and fierce grinding discords, powerful enough to drive humans mad if they could hear it. So he has made a machine that can prove him the existence of many odd inaudible sounds. The machine has been designed to pick up sound vibrations that are too high-pitched for reception by the human ear and to convert them to a scale of audible tones.
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