[Wagner’s marginal notes:] Ideality of the Man – Naturality of the Woman – (Buddha) – now – degeneration of the man – etc.” [1150W-{2/11/83}The Human Womanly – (fragment) (PW Vol. VI; P. 337]
[1151W-{2/12/83} CD Vol. II, p. 1009-1010]
[P. 1009] “When I am already lying in bed, I hear him talking volubly and loudly; I get up and go into this room. ‘I was talking to you,’ he says, and embraces me tenderly and long. ‘Once in 5,000 years it succeeds!’ ‘I was talking about Undine, the being who longed for a soul.’ He goes to the piano, plays the mournful theme ‘Rheingold, Rheingold,’ continues with ‘False and base all those who dwell up above.’ ‘Extraordinary that I [P. 1010] saw all this so clearly at that time!’ – And as he is lying in bed, he says, ‘I feel loving toward them, these subservient creatures of the deep, with all their yearning.’ “ [1151W-{2/12/83} CD Vol. II, p. 1009-1010]
