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As I said, I really don't want to get into an argument with some ignoramus about whether one can or can't compare Siegmund with Alberich or whatever the fuck.
It's infantile.
Go and argue with this year's director of "The Ring" at Bayreuth about whether his production "gets it right" or not and what you will "allow" him to suggest and what you won't.
He'll laugh in your face, as he would in the face of any idiot who runs around shouting about what an "expert" he is on such matters.
And as to bringing myself into things - this again is probably something a person like you, with your sad little point-scoring, quantifying relation to culture, writing and art can NEVER understand, but speaking FROM AND FOR ONE'S OWN EXPERIENCE is a GOOD thing, not a bad one.
Language, art, EVERYTHING, is DEAD without that. Indeed, ironically - as the idiotic, repetitive Cracky-spamming shows - the people most determined on being "ego-less" and "anonymous" will always end up the ones who most crudely and brutally assert THEMSELVES.