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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: was not a Schopenhaurite every day in the week, nor even a
Wagnerite. His mind changes as often as his mood. On Monday
nothing will ever induce him to return to quilldriving: on
Tuesday he begins a new pamphlet. On Wednesday he is impatient of
the misapprehensions of people who cannot see how impossible it
is for him to preside as a conductor over platform performances
of fragments of his works, which can only be understood when
presented strictly according to his intention on the stage: on
Thursday he gets up a concert of Wagnerian selections, and when
it is over writes to his friends describing how profoundly both
bandsmen and audience were impressed. On Friday he exults in the
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