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But let's concentrate on the OTHER opinion you express that classes you irredeemably among the vulgar and the shallow who will never experience other than a loud, banging and clashing caricature of the true Wagner. I mean the opinion that "Siegfried is generally considered the most awesome part." It is this opinion - in its hopeless misguidedness and utter lack of dramatic and philosophical insight and instinct - that is actually directly relevant to the topic we are discussing: namely, what function do "the scenes with the gods" perform in "The Ring" and how do they differ from "the scenes with mortals"?