Help me decipher this quote please?

Question

"d**n the bright lights by which no one, reads, d**n the continuous music that no one hears, d**n the grand pianos that no one can play, d**n the white houses mortgaged up to their rain gutters, and d**n their shelves on which there rests a single book -- a copy of the telephone directory in brocade" --John Cheever

Answer 1

d**n all of the things in life that are wasted.

they seem to be very useful but no one uses them.

Answer 2

I think it just simply means that everything is taken for granted.  I don't think he's cursing at the fact that we don't read books or we don't listen to music, I think he's just trying to prove the opposite by showing how we let all these good things in life go to waste.