The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
“I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.”
“Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.”