Monday, February 26:
Continual storm and gray skies. I have the feeling that this gale must blow away all things good and beautiful, all the fine images of hope, faith, and love. R. says how sad it is that he has now reached the stage of wishing to hear nothing more about the Ring des Nibelungen and wishing the theater would go up in flames. Dr. Forster writes, very willing to engage Herr Unger and at the same time asking for the Ring. R. says that if the King intends to have the Ring performed, as is reported in the newspapers, then he will release his work to the other stages as well.
In the evening, Aristophanes’s The Peace, always as a complement to Thucydides.