Alex DeLarge indulges in his obsession with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, describing the visceral and violent fantasies the music inspires. He revels in the sensory overload of the sound, equating high art with brutal acts of aggression.
ALEX: It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van. Then, brothers, it came. O bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was gorgeousness and georgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the tr
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