Two horses, both more than horses. Thompson’s Greek row lands in our wiring one chapter late; the sentence itself closes the previous served chapter: “Adrastus alone was saved by his horse Arion”, and “That horse Poseidon begot on Demeter” when she met him in the likeness of a Fury [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI]. Frazer’s note beneath calls him “Arion, the swift steed of Adrastus, is mentioned by Homer” — his divine parentage already old there — sprung from “one of the most savage of all the stories of ancient Greece” [ibid., editor’s note]. The Norse shelf answers with Grani, verified by reading though Thompson’s Icelandic row is only a catalogue pointer: loaded with Fafnir’s whole hoard — gold that “scarce might two horses, or three belike, bear it thence” — the horse “nowise will he stir, neither will he abide smiting” until “Sigurd knows the mind of the horse”, mounts, and “off the horse goes even as if he were unladen” [The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), XIX]. The god-begotten rescuer and the willful bearer: in this motif, help has a mind of its own. The machine candidate — a Chinese prince’s fast mount — dissolved on reading: speed is not agency.