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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: without plunging at once into perjury and murder. Besides, this
explanation involves the sacrifice of the whole significance of
the allegory, and the reduction of The Ring to the plane of a-
child's conception of The Sleeping Beauty. Whoever does not
understand that, in terms of The Ring philosophy, a change from
godhead to humanity is a step higher and not a degradation,
misses the whole point of The Ring. It is precisely because the
truthfulness of Brynhild is proof against Wotan's spells that he
has to contrive the fire palisade with Loki, to protect the
fictions and conventions of Valhalla against her.
The only tolerable view is the one supported by the known history
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