Wednesday, November 24:
R. slept well. I walk to the theater with the children, he comes to meet us in the carriage. Pleasant weather, we show friend Jouk. the old opera house. A new volume by C. Frantz about Schelling annoys R. very much; he says, "As long as he (Sch.) believes he has got hold of God Almighty, then everything is all right." He says he once thought Schopenhauer was too harsh in treating these people as charlatans, but he had been quite right: it is sheer windbaggery.
After lunch he talks of his indifference toward the performance of his works, and says what he finds most painful about it is that he has to pretend it is important to him. He is disturbed about Parsifal, says he would like to compose the whole thing anew. He goes out for a short walk.
In the evening our friends Wolz., Jager, Forges, Rubinstein. R. expresses his indignation with Schelling and reads to us a truly incredible passage, proving the existence of God by its impossibility. Then he indicates some cuts for Tristan (2nd act).