Endnotes

  1. Like the river Ganges: presto. ↩

  2. Like the tortoise: lento. ↩

  3. Like the frog: staccato. ↩

  4. Pages 54⁠–⁠55 of Schopenhauer’s Basis of Morality, translated by Arthur B. Bullock, M.A. (1903). ↩

  5. An expression from Schiller’s William Tell, Act IV, Scene 3. ↩

  6. Horace’s Epistles, I, X, 24. ↩

  7. Goethe’s Faust, Part II, Act V. ↩