| 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: was a veritable harmonic and melodic bogey to mid-century ears,
though time has now robbed it of its terrors. It sounds again
when Fafnir slays Fasolt, and on every subsequent occasion when
the ring brings death to its holder. This episode must justify
itself purely as a piece of stage sensationalism. On deeper
ground it is superfluous and confusing, as the ruin to which the
pursuit of riches leads needs no curse to explain it; nor is
there any sense in investing Alberic with providential powers in
the matter.
THE VALKYRIES
Before the curtain rises on the Valkyries, let us see what has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and then the nest of a condor in a crevice. Finally there was
nothing at all but the bare rock, and had it not been very rough
and weathered, he could scarcely have ascended farther. Knobs,
ledges, and pinnacles, however, helped greatly; and it was cheering
to see occasionally the sign of some lava-gatherer scratched clumsily
in the friable stone, and know that wholesome human creatures
had been there before him. After a certain height the presence
of man was further shewn by handholds and footholds hewn where
they were needed, and by little quarries and excavations where
some choice vein or stream of lava had been found. In one place
a narrow ledge had been chopped artificially to an especially
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: their
proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common
prostitutes,
take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.
Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and
thus,
at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached
with,
is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a
hypocritically
concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest,
The Communist Manifesto |
