(1) A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.

(2) The book is purposefully middlebrow, on a mission to explain musical arcana to a wide audience.

(3) Death is a gruesome and terrible Arcanum.

(4) Death: The Arcanum that governs darkness, decay, ectoplasm, enervation, ghosts and soul stealing.

(5) Epistemology is also the foundation and the arcanum of Wang's theory as a whole.

(6) Fate: The Arcanum that governs blessings, curses, destiny, fortune, oaths and probability.

(7) The Arcanum of Space.