| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: looked north, and saw the mountain wall which guards the
Magnesian shore; Olympus, the seat of the Immortals, and
Ossa, and Pelion, where he stood. Then he looked east and saw
the bright blue sea, which stretched away for ever toward the
dawn. Then he looked south, and saw a pleasant land, with
white-walled towns and farms, nestling along the shore of a
land-locked bay, while the smoke rose blue among the trees;
and he knew it for the bay of Pagasai, and the rich lowlands
of Haemonia, and Iolcos by the sea.
Then he sighed, and asked, 'Is it true what the heroes tell
me - that I am heir of that fair land?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: another, it makes the company appear to be at least half as numerous
again as it really was. It announces that they will open with "Les
Fourberies de Scaramouche," to be followed by five other plays of
which it gives the titles, and by others not named, which shall also
be added should the patronage to be received in the distinguished
and enlightened city of Nantes encourage the Binet Troupe to prolong
its sojourn at the Theatre Feydau. It lays great stress upon the
fact that this is a company of improvisers in the old Italian manner,
the like of which has not been seen in France for half a century,
and it exhorts the public of Nantes not to miss this opportunity of
witnessing these distinguished mimes who are reviving for them the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: good or great work. And I say that a lover who is detected in doing any
dishonourable act, or submitting through cowardice when any dishonour is
done to him by another, will be more pained at being detected by his
beloved than at being seen by his father, or by his companions, or by any
one else. The beloved too, when he is found in any disgraceful situation,
has the same feeling about his lover. And if there were only some way of
contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their
loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own
city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour;
and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would
overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by
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