Wednesday, March 14:
R. is writing his stage dedication play; at lunch he tells me: “She will be called Gundrigia, the weaver of war,” but then he decides to keep to “Kundry.” And he will be called Parsifal.
In the evening he reads me the scenes in Shakespeare’s play in which Julius Caesar appears, and says he must be seen throughout as an eccentric and tired man, as in Plutarch, when he once says that Brutus might at least wait “until the tired flesh fell away” from him — a little like plain and somber, his Caesar, simple and tired! He reads Brutus’s life in Plutarch.