| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: spring or downward jump.[4]
[4] Lit. "in making these jumps, springs, and leaps across or up or
down."
To face a steep incline, you must first teach him on soft ground, and
finally, when he is accustomed to that, he will much prefer the
downward to the upward slope for a fast pace. And as to the
apprehension, which some people entertain, that a horse may dislocate
the shoulder in galloping down an incline, it should encourage them to
learn that the Persians and Odrysians all run races down precipitous
slopes;[5] and their horses are every bit as sound as our own.[6]
[5] Cf. "Anab." IV. viii. 28; and so the Georgians to this day
On Horsemanship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: isn't very likely there would be any mice on the horse's back.'
`Not very likely, perhaps,' said the Knight: `but if they DO
come, I don't choose to have them running all about.'
`You see,' he went on after a pause, `it's as well to be
provided for EVERYTHING. That's the reason the horse has all
those anklets round his feet.'
`But what are they for?' Alice asked in a tone of great
curiosity.
`To guard against the bites of sharks,' the Knight replied.
`It's an invention of my own. And now help me on. I'll go with
you to the end of the wood--What's the dish for?'
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: [1] A square piece of cotton-goods, or other woven material, used as a
wrapper in which to carry small packages.
(4) Ten yen is nothing now, but was a formidable sum then.
INSECT STUDIES
BUTTERFLIES
(1) Haiku.
[1] "The modest nymph beheld her God, and blushed." (Or, in a more
familiar rendering: "The modest water saw its God, and blushed.") In this
line the double value of the word nympha -- used by classical poets both in
the meaning of fountain and in that of the divinity of a fountain, or
spring -- reminds one of that graceful playing with words which Japanese
Kwaidan |
