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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: consented to pay, in token whereof he has promised this day to
hand over to the giants Fricka's sister, the goddess Freia, with
her golden love-apples. When Fricka reproaches Wotan with having
selfishly forgotten this, she finds that he, like herself, is not
prepared to go through with his bargain, and that he is trusting
to another great worldforce, the Lie (a European Power, as
Lassalle said), to help him to trick the giants out of their
reward. But this force does not dwell in Wotan himself, but in
another, a god over whom he has triumphed, one Loki, the god of
Intellect, Argument, Imagination, Illusion, and Reason. Loki has
promised to deliver him from his contract, and to cheat the
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