How far our civilization is from offering the pleasures attributable to its state!  We have to wonder, for example, that an association between the dreamers living in any big city doesn’t exist to support a newspaper which notices the hidden everyday events specific to dreams.  In artifice as in reality, a good way to fix the mind is between the mirage of a fact, but it rests even on some universal agreement: see, then if it does not, ideally, bear a necessary aspect, clear, simple, it will serve as a type.  I, for myself, wrote as it caught my poet’s eye, such an Anecdote, before disclosure to the crowd of reporters prepared to assign to each thing its common nature.

The small theater of EXTRAVAGANCES assists at the exhibition of the living cousin of Atta Troll or Martin’s classic fairy tale, the Beast and the Genie, and I had to recognize that the invitation of the double ticket yesterday misled me, I put my hat in the vacant stall next to me, my friends’ absence testified to the general taste to avoid this innocent entertainment.  What was happening to me?  Nothing, except: that evasive paleness of muslin taking refuge on twenty pedestals with architecture of Baghdad, brought out a smile and opened its arms to the sad heaviness of the bear, whereas the hero, of these evocative sylphs and their keeper, a clown, in his high nudity of money, mocked the animal with our superiority.  Enjoy, like the crowd, the myth included in any banality, and what a relief, without neighbors reflecting on it all, to see the ordinary and splendid day at the footlights found in my drowsy research of imagination or symbols.  A stranger to many a reminiscence of such evenings, happenstance seems new!  aroused my attention: one of many bursts of applause awarded by the enthusiasm shown on the stage of the genuine privilege of Man came, shattered by what?  It stopped clearly with one fixed crash at the height of glory, unable to spread.  It was necessary for all eyes to be all ears.  The gesture of the puppet, a palm clenched in the air and opened five fingers, I realized that he had ingeniously captured the sympathies of appearance to catch the flight of something in a figure (and all) the ease by which each is taken, an idea that moved in the slight wind, the bear rhythmically and gently lifted, questioned this feat: a claw placed on the ribbons of the human shoulder.  A person wasn’t panting, though this situation had serious consequences for the honor of the race, what was going to happen?  The other leg fell, against an arm along the shirt; and the audience saw a couple united in a secret link, as an inferior man, stocky, good, up on the space of two hairy legs, embrace it to teach the practices of the genius and the skull to the black snout who had not attained half the bust of his brilliant and supernatural brother: but who, him! heightened the crazy mouth of waves, a hideous leader moving by a visible thread in the horror the real denials of a fly of paper and gold.  A clear entertainment, more than the vast trestles, with this gift, proper to matters of art, to last for a long time:  To perfect it I permitted there to spring a silently forbidden speech from the scion of Arctic sites:, without being offended by the probably fatal attitude taken by the mime repository of our pride "Be good (this was the direction), and rather than fail in charity, explain to me the virtue of this atmosphere of beauty, dust and voice, where you taught me to move.  My urgent query is just, that you do not seem, in a fear which is only feigned, to answer not to know hurt in the regions of wisdom, the subtle elder! to me, to make you free, still dressed to stay informed of the caves where I dove back in the nighttime humbly, my latent strength.  We authenticate by this close embrace, before the multitude sitting to this end, the pact of our reconciliation.”  The absence of any solid blows to space, in which place I, absolute, was living one of the tragedies of astral history chosen to be performed there, in this small theater!  The crowd faded, completely, all in the emblem of its spiritual situation glorifying the scene:  a modern provider of ecstasy, alone, with the impartiality of something elemental, the gas, in the high corners of the room, continued a bright noise of expectation.

The charm broke: it was when a piece of flesh, naked, brutal, crossed my vision directed by the interval of the decor, ahead of a few moments on the result, mysterious usually after these performances.  A rag substituted for bleeding from the bear, who found its instincts again in a higher curiosity which endowed it with a theatrical brilliance, fell on all fours and, carried the Silence among them all, went walking, suffocated the species, sniffed, and applied the teeth, to this prey.  A sigh, almost free of disappointment, inexplicably relieved the meeting: including opera glasses, in rows, attempted, turning the sharpness of their lenses, the game's splendid fool evaporated in fear; but saw an abject meal might be preferred by the animal to the same thing he would have had to first get our image, to taste it.  The curtain, hesitating up to then to increase the danger or the emotion, came down suddenly, displaying its newspaper of price lists and common places.  I got up like everyone else, to take a breath outside, surprised not to have felt, again, the same kind of feeling that my companions had, but serene because my way of seeing, after all, had been higher, and even true.