In Search of Wagner

My copy of this book is unique. Adorno was searching for the meaning of Wagner. I am searching for meaning in Adorno. Someone who came before me was doing one or the other, or perhaps both. Whoever it was left behind traces of their search: underlinings, sometimes lasting for several pages; marginal notes; graphics. There are even two pencilled epigraphs: [1] "the mixture of D. Michael Quinn and cyberpunk", and [2] "Come Again to the Healing Waters -- Liszt." Now, D. Michael Quinn could either be: (a) a Mormon historian fixated on polygamy and homosexuality, or (b) an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Bloomfield, Michigan. Liszt is, presumably, Wagner's piano-playing father-in-law. Now, mormonism has a somewhat conflicted view of Jews and Judaism, considering Native Americans to be both (1) the lost tribe of Israel, hence blessed by God as the Chosen People and (2) cursed by God with a red skin as a result of their antagonism to the Sons of Nephi. And, of course, we know about Wagner's anti-semitism, although some of his best friends and benefactors were Jews. How Bloomfield, Michigan comes into it, I don't know. The search continues... ( )