R. resolves to write a lengthy and candid letter to Clemens; I send with it a few conciliatory lines. Kapellmeister Levi desires, in Bayreuth’s interest, to perform portions of Siegfried in Munich. R. writes also to Dr. Jauner, inquiring whether he would be troublesome with his scruples. – Visit to the school in which Fidi is to play frolicking and hiding next year. In the evening, Goethe’s speech on Wieland—glorious; particularly exquisite is the relation, or misrelation, of Wieland to antiquity and to philosophy, and then also his “quill”. – After supper, reflections upon the pitiful ending of all relationships: “mark how it ends” – R. says, the genuine, like our love and our unity, must in the end fight its way through, as must that which is true everywhere, not by reason of man’s goodness, but because the false is ever barren, carrying within itself the seed of decay—as certain unions bring forth no children.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.