Thursday, July 17:
R. is very busy and is now enjoying his work again. The world is rather quiet; only the house is causing us difficulties. Chance discussion after lunch about deafness and blindness: R. would bear the former more willingly, since his ears have conveyed more sufferings than pleasures to him, though these can indeed be very ecstatic, whereas the mere fact of seeing provides many distractions.
In the evening the first volume of Uhland.