| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: mounting."
[5] "Give himself simultaneously a lift." Reading {ekteinon}, or if
{enteinon}, "keeping his right arm stiff."
[6] Or, "a style of mounting which will obviate an ungainly attitude
behind."
[7] Lit. "lower his buttocks on to the horse's back."
To meet the case in which the horseman may chance to be leading his
horse with the left hand and carrying his spear in the right, it would
be good, we think, for every one to practise vaulting on to his seat
from the right side also. In fact, he has nothing else to learn except
to do with his right limbs what he has previously done with the left,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: on his heels to launch and emphasise an argument. When he began a
discussion, he could not bear to leave it off, but would pick the
subject to the bone, without once relinquishing a point. An engineer
by trade, Mackay believed in the unlimited perfectibility of all
machines except the human machine. The latter he gave up with
ridicule for a compound of carrion and perverse gases. He had an
appetite for disconnected facts which I can only compare to the
savage taste for beads. What is called information was indeed a
passion with the man, and he not only delighted to receive it, but
could pay you back in kind.
With all these capabilities, here was Mackay, already no longer
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: A noise of horns and hunting, which shall bring
Actaeon to Diana in the spring,
Where all shall see her naked skin . . .
199. I do not know the origin of the ballad from which these lines
are taken: it was reported to me from Sydney, Australia.
202. _V._ Verlaine, PARSIFAL.
210. The currants were quoted at a price 'carriage and insurance
free to London'; and the Bill of Lading, etc., were to be handed
to the buyer upon payment of the sight draft.
Notes 196 and 197 were transposed in this and the Hogarth Press edition,
but have been corrected here.
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