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... as vulgar. Campaigning implied ambition, and ambition implied that the office was something you wanted rather than something you *accepted*. In the Crucible’s political culture — a culture that Theron understood the way a fish understood water, by having never lived outside it — the correct posture for a papal candidate was reluctant readiness. I do not seek the burden. But I will not refuse it, if called.
The posture was a lie. Everyone knew it was a lie. The art was in maintaining it. ...
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