Poetry in Vienna with Coloured Illustrations. Sigmund Freud, a dull man, started off conventionally, as dull men do, with cocaine, electrotherapy and hypnosis... Here the lunatics are free. They walk the streets confined within their minds, and peer out through the blinds and the visors of their faces. BEETHOVEN'S APOTHEOSIS On a hill among the Vienna Woods overlooking Baden is a rotunda with a green oxidised dome.This is Beethoven's Temple, surrounded by trees and roses, surmounted by a car park...Beethovan's response to the Fall of man... are written on the wall. "Something higher there is not than to approach the Godhead and, from here, its rays among mankind to spread.