Endnotes + 

Like the river Ganges: presto. ↩ + 

Like the tortoise: lento. ↩ + 

Like the frog: staccato. ↩ + 

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

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

Horace’s Epistles, I, X, 24. ↩ + 

Goethe’s Faust, Part II, Act V. ↩ + 