| 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: certainly pay an early visit to the renowned chief of the
Gibichungs. They can then give him a philtre which will make him
fall in love with Gutrune and forget every other woman he has yet
seen.
Gunther is transported with admiration of Hagen's cunning when he
takes in this plan; and he has hardly assented to it when
Siegfried, with operatic opportuneness, drops in just as Hagen
expected, and is duly drugged into the heartiest love for Gutrune
and total oblivion of Brynhild and his own past. When Gunther
declares his longing for the bride who lies inaccessible within a
palisade of flame, Siegfried at once offers to undertake the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: wisdom, but they have at last carried out the pancratiastic art to the very
end, and have mastered the only mode of fighting which had been hitherto
neglected by them; and now no one dares even to stand up against them:
such is their skill in the war of words, that they can refute any
proposition whether true or false. Now I am thinking, Crito, of placing
myself in their hands; for they say that in a short time they can impart
their skill to any one.
CRITO: But, Socrates, are you not too old? there may be reason to fear
that.
SOCRATES: Certainly not, Crito; as I will prove to you, for I have the
consolation of knowing that they began this art of disputation which I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: Their ways of thought harmonized. They talked at first
chiefly about the history of the world and the extraordinary
situation of aimlessness in a phase of ruin to which the
Great War had brought all Europe, if not all mankind. The
world excited them both in the same way; as a crisis in which
they were called upon to do something--they did not yet
clearly know what. Into this topic they peered as into some
deep pool, side by side, and in it they saw each other
reflected.
The visit to Avebury had been a great success. It had been a
perfect springtime day, and the little inn had been delighted
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