Friday, November 5:
Arranged the study, or “thinking den.” After lunch, with Lulu to her piano lesson. In the evening D. Quixote. In the morning a letter from Doris, saying the woman in Leipzig is trying to cheat me. In the evening letters from Judith and Catulle Mendès; they beg R. to come to Paris to conduct concerts. Litolff offers him hospitality.
A Paris newspaper announces our marriage in very dignified phrases; a Herr Beckmann protests against ugly rumors. R. laughs, embraces me, and says, “Oh, yes, you are being gossiped about with me.” Then he takes Siegfried in his arms and plays with him for a long time. To me he says: “We shall have to send Siegfried away; when he is approaching manhood he will have to meet other people, to get to know adversity, have fun, and misbehave himself; otherwise he will become a dreamer, maybe an idiot, the sort of thing we see in the King of Bavaria.” “But where?” “With Nietzsche, wherever Nietzsche is teaching, and we shall watch from afar, as Wotan watches the education of Siegfried. He will have free meals twice a week with Nietzsche, and every Saturday we shall expect a report.”