Monday, March 19:
In spite of London and everything else, R. still finds the will-power to continue writing Parsifal in the morning. The afternoon does indeed pass in a fever of reckoning, as he says, since his thoughts and deeds are now fixed on London. Legal proceedings with a photographer here, and Antigone.
After lunch R. showed me the remarkable passage in Plutarch in which Cassius expatiates to Brutus about visions. In Vienna the fourth performance of Die Walküre with increasing success; the Emperor saw it for the third time, which is considered very remarkable. It seems to me that a tried and tested prince might well be able to understand Wotan.