Chapter 21: Insertion of Connectives

Come now, insert the connectives, if you want to, as the Isocrateans do,

And indeed one should not leave this point aside, that the boxer would do many things, first with his bearing, and next with his look, and next of course with his voice,

and you will understand, by consistently transcribing it in this way, that the harried and rough qualities of the emotion—if you should level them with connectives—fall off into pointlessness and are at once quenched. 2. You see, just as if someone connected the bodies of runners together, he would remove their rapidity, so emotion also feels the pressure when the connectives and other insertions impede them: emotion loses its freedom of running and its effect of being shot from a catapult.