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Excerpt from Das Rheingold
(greenish twilight, lighter above, darker below. The upper part of the scene is filled with moving water, which r'estlessly streams from R. Tol. Towards the bottom the waters resolve themselves into a fine mist, so that the space to a man's height from the stage seems free from the water which floats like a train of clouds over the gloomy depths. Every where aresteeppoints of rock-jutting up from the depths and enclosing the whole stage, all the ground is broken up into a wild confusion of jagged pieces, so that there is no level place, while on all sides darkness indicates other deeper fissures.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.