"Magus" may be an attempt to render "Magoo" in French, as well, though it's difficult to second-guess the pronunciation of a name.
S2 has a lovely subtle humor. It's courageous to bring in allusions to William James, Mr. Magoo, the birth of Christ, and "Where's Waldo?"--in one sonnet! I feel it could have done without "Wonder and wander."
There's surely, as Len says, "an air of the faintly ridiculous tinged with true pathos and regret" here, though I sense the former more than the latter two. In fact, adding such an epigraph must be meant to amuse when it seems the sonnet is written to expand upon its final phrase: "to contradict them more than it confirms them." Yes, indeed! And the response to that is either the creative, the suicidal, the psychotic, or possibly the spiritual and/or hermetic.
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