Monday, June 19:
News of August Röckel’s death. It arouses feelings of sadness, more on account of the separation brought about by life than by death.
Cosima's Diaries
Diary Entry of June 19, 1876
Overview
News comes of August Rockel’s death, and the loss is felt more as a painful separation in life than as grief over death itself. The entry carries a subdued, reflective sadness rather than dramatic lament. The emotional emphasis falls on absence and distance.