Monday, November 27:
More news of Bologna, and ever more pleasant. I am still taking care of Christmas; worry over Lulu and Boni (lies, untidiness), it upsets me deeply; R. thinks I should not take it seriously: “Youth and virtue do not mix.” — Frau Wesendonck sends a tragedy, Edith, which I read at once; R. wants me to ignore both letter and play, he declares that it compromises him. To town with R.; returned alone. Letter from Brandt, asking pardon for the newspaper report and saying that the machinery cannot be ready before ’74. R. replies. All newspapers print Herr Heckel’s appeal to the Wagner Societies except the A.A.Z., which also prints nothing regarding Baden-Baden or Bologna. In the evening Schopenhauer. Glanced during the day through his wretched collected poems. Richter writes that the Tristan Prelude caused tremendous jubilation in Pest. —