Thursday, May 4:
R. slept well and wakes from a comical dream in which he was kicking the children! The Grosses and Feustel have lunch with us. Afterward we go for a walk in the palace gardens; the birds, not heard for so long, enchant us. After R. has taken me to call on the mayor’s wife, I meet him again at Angermann’s, where a comical incident has just taken place: he loudly criticized the beer from an outside brewery, saying it was adulterated; the director of the brewery was there, and he made a violent protest. In the evening he spent an hour by himself before supper; he is overcome by emotion, which expresses itself in a melody! Wolzogen comes in the evening, and there is much talk about Kant. Then about vegetarians, and R. speaks warningly of deluding oneself that one is better than others. The piano score of Parsifal has arrived!