"The object of this production I shall consider thoroughly attained, if I and my artistic comrades, the actual performers, shall within these four evenings succeed in artistically conveying my purpose to the true Emotional (not the Critical) Understanding of spectators who shall have gathered together expressly to learn it." - Richard Wagner on The Ring Cycle. Fortunately, the dragons arrived.
"'God's in his heaven, all’s right with the world,' whispered Anne softly." And then ... the dragons arrived. - (Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls Of heroes into Hades' dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done. Begin with the clash between Agamemnon— The Greek warlord—and the dragons.