[951W-{12/1/78}CD Vol. II, p. 216]
[P. 216] “He complains what little attention is paid to a sense of beauty, ‘in which I regard myself as Mozart’s successor’ – for example, the way Bruennhilde talks of Siegfried to Wotan in Die Walkuere. When I point out that the emotional feelings of the listener at this point prevent his having much regard for the consummate form: ‘That’s what the works are for, they are there and can be studied.’ “ [951W-{12/1/78}CD Vol. II, p. 216]
[952W-{12/1/78}CD Vol. II, p. 216]
[P. 216] “R. stresses the fact that the Jews have been amalgamated with us at least 50 years too soon: ‘We must first be something ourselves. The damage now is frightful.’ “ [952W-{12/1/78}CD Vol. II, p. 216]
[953W-{12/9/78}CD Vol. II, p. 222]
[P. 222] {anti-FEUER/NIET} {SCHOP} “In the morning R. comes to the subject of original sin, saying, with reference to Nietzsche’s assertion that all are innocent, that this is correct as regards operare, but the sin lies in existence itself, the will to live … .” [953W-{12/9/78}CD Vol. II, p. 222]
[954W-{12/27/78}CD Vol. II, P. 240-241]
[P. 240] “Our conversation ends with a very animated description of the evils the Jews have brought on us Germans. R. says that he personally has had some very good friends [P. 241] among the Jews, but their emancipation and equality, granted before we Germans had come to anything, had been ruinous. He considers Germany to be finished.” [954W-{12/27/78}CD Vol. II, P. 240-241]
[955W-{1/11/79} CD Vol. II, p. 252]
[P. 252] {FEUER} “In the evening, when he fetches me for supper, he comes back to ‘But I will,’ then says, ‘I will not, but I must.’ ‘A human being must acknowledge necessity,’ he says, ‘that’s what makes him divine.’ “ [955W-{1/11/79} CD Vol. II, p. 252]
[956W-{1/13/79}CD Vol. II, p. 254]
[P. 254] “Friend Levi stays behind after our other friends have gone, and when he tells us that his father is a rabbi, our conversation comes back to the Israelites – the feeling that they intervened too early in our cultural condition, that the human qualities the German character might have developed from within itself and then passed on to the Jewish character have been stunted by their premature interference in our affairs, before we have become fully aware of ourselves.” [956W-{1/13/79}CD Vol. II, p. 254]
