“A musician goes one step further. Developing to the utmost a Bayreuth usage, he arranges a concert in a totally darkened hall, and thus delights those of the audience who find opportunity, by happily chosen juxtapositions, to augment their musical sensations by hidden enjoyment of another sort.”
so what you’re telling me is that people were doing the equivalent of fucking in the back of a dark movie theatre in 1892
“Even the nose, hitherto basely ignored by the fine arts, attracts the pioneers, and is by them invited to take part in aesthetic delights. A hose is set up in the theatre, by which the spectators are sprayed with perfumes.”
1892 had smell-o-vision. incredible