Wednesday, September 21:
Concerning journalism. — This has rendered man (vulgo: the audience) so incapable of allowing the effect of an event — or ultimately of a work of art — to work on him directly and naively, that now even I who count solely on this direct impression and employ all my art towards achieving the greatest precision of the same, find myself after all obliged to ‘write’ in order again simply to prepare the audience’s power of comprehension for this impression. —
Delicacy of the kind of art — according to locality and auditorium. — Cothurnus. — (Instrumentation.)