| 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: permanently practical and beneficial reform or moral habit that
will survive the correction of its excesses by the next reaction.
DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN
We can now see how a single drama in which Wotan does not appear,
and of which Siegfried is the hero, expanded itself into a great
fourfold drama of which Wotan is the hero. You cannot dramatize a
reaction by personifying the reacting force only, any more than
Archimedes could lift the world without a fulcrum for his lever.
You must also personify the established power against which the
new force is reacting; and in the conflict between them you get
your drama, conflict being the essential ingredient in all drama.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: position, would have had the courage to have refused uselessly
to expose the girl to danger. He would not have thought of himself
at all; but the egotism of the Hon. Morison required that he
think always of self first. He had planned the ride to get Meriem
away from the bungalow. He wanted to talk to her alone and far
enough away so should she take offense at his purposed suggestion
he would have time in which to attempt to right himself in her
eyes before they reached home. He had little doubt, of course,
but that he should succeed; but it is to his credit that he did
have some slight doubts.
"You needn't be afraid of the lion," said Meriem, noting his
The Son of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: he to know? He fought his way against the rain
and the gale on all fours, and crawled at last
among some sheep huddled close under the lee of a
hedge. They ran off in all directions, bleating in
the darkness, and he welcomed the first familiar
sound he heard on these shores. It must have been
two in the morning then. And this is all we know
of the manner of his landing, though he did not
arrive unattended by any means. Only his grisly
company did not begin to come ashore till much
later in the day. . . ."
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