The girl wasn’t so young that she did not know the delicious satisfaction of having a perfectly behaved body and the fun of using it to do a trick most people can’t do, but she was too young to know that time does not really move in a circle at all. I thought: “She will never be as beautiful as this again[…] She is at that enviable moment in life when she believes she can go once around the ring, make one complete circuit, and at the end be the same age as at the start.