"It occurs to me that while the Mock Turtle instructs that one should 'throw the [lobsters] as far out to sea as you can,' it is probably best not to take this instruction overly literally. It would not do to toss one's lobster in such a way that its limbs flail about ungracefully through the air, as might occur should one be over-exuberant. Further, it is easy to misjudge from land how much ocean one can cover in four bars of music, and it would be quite rude to one's lobster to throw it so far that one cannot reach it within the allotted music. I thus recommend that dancers new to this quadrille err on the side of caution when executing this figure." -- Marc Hartstein, commenting on a reconstruction of the steps of the Lobster Quadrille by Susan de Guardiola, 2008-04-01