Friday, October 8:
R. decides to write a detailed and frank letter to Clemens; I send some conciliatory words with it. The conductor Levi wants to perform some pieces from Siegfried in Munich in support of Bayreuth. R. also writes to Herr Jauner, asking whether all his objections are making things difficult for him.
Visit to the school in which Fidi will next year be romping and dodging.
In the evening Goethe's speech on Wieland, splendid, quite particularly fine: Wieland's attitude, or rather wrong attitude, toward antiquity and philosophy, then, too, his quill.
After lunch thoughts on the lamentable end of all relationships, 'mark how it will end.' R. says that what is genuine, like our love and our belonging together, will prevail in the end, and also what is true, not because of man's goodness, but because that which is untrue is also unfruitful; it bears within itself a seed of decay, like certain marriages which produce no children.