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Part of "The Ring of Time" .............................................. by E.B. White "...we stood... watching a big brown circus horse go... around the practice ring... I heard a girl... about sixteen... she was barefoot... like a showgirl... she swung aboard [the horse]... Most of the time [she] rode in a standing position... hands at her sides... twice in a one-foot stance... ...the ring of ambition, of happiness, of spirit... the element of time... running in circles... It [is] ambitious of me to try to describe the indescribable... a writer, like an acrobat, must try... Whatever light... generated, whatever excitement...must come from original sources--from internal fires of hunger and delight... It is the difference between planetary light and the combustion of stars."