| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: adoption shows the same recklessness as to the original intention
which we find in the music of the last act of The Dusk of the
Gods.*
*Die Gotterdammerung means literally Godsgloaming. The English
versions of the opera are usually called The Dusk of the Gods, or
The Twilight of the Gods. I have purposely introduced the
ordinary title in the sentence above for the reader's
information.
WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
Wagner, however, was not the man to allow his grip of a great
philosophic theme to slacken even in twenty-five years if the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad and in their badness reign.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: of the papers blew out of the window, or blew away from the summer
house, where the master writes sometimes, they couldn't have
scattered all over the garden like that."
Muller didn't follow up this subject any longer. There might come
a time when he would be interested in finding out the reason for
the housekeeper's search in the garden, but just at present he
wanted something else. He remembered some remark of the old man's
about the "poor little dog," and on this he built his plan.
"Oh, well," he said carelessly, "almost everybody is nervous and
impatient now-a-days. I suppose Mrs. Bernauer felt uneasy because
she couldn't find the paper right away. There's nothing particularly
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