Saturday, October 14:
Clemens Brockhaus writes very nicely to Loulou. R. works. As I greet him around noon, he exclaims, “You and I are in fact doing the same thing, devoting ourselves like mad people to one single aim, and that is absurd!”
Kathchen writes that she cannot come for another five weeks, which upsets R. very much. He writes to Hedwig Neumann, asking her to get things settled. God knows, I am very tired, and regret being able to do so little for R. Fire in the rooms.