“It seems to me that I can guess what the ancient chimes, our kind old aunt, want to tell us with this discord. Being a Viennese symbol, they feel an inner need to become a Viennese symptom. And they show us not the time of the hour that has come, but time in general, time as such. They represent the epitome of discord, demonstrating the notice and its fallacy, the decree and its impracticability, the message and its refutation. They seem to be telling us: “In Vienna we shouldn’t take anything too seriously. You'll see - everything will turn out completely differently...”