Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of March 1, 1877

Overview

Financial concerns dominate the morning, though the weather brightens later. In the evening they finish reading The Peace, and its comic brilliance leaves them with a dark recognition of how ruin can be wrapped in laughter.

Content

Thursday, March 1:

Day for the accounts - we are spending much money, very much, God help us! But at last a fine, glittering sky. R. goes out; in the evening we read The Peace to the end, exactly the amount R. can read with me - it is enough to numb us with its genius: the Athenians went laughing to their downfall.