constituent assembly

has nothing left to do once the republic is constituted, like the creator after the earth was made — except flee to heaven, which it refused to do.

Recast in definition form from: “And what place was there for a Constituent Assembly in a constituted republic? After the earth had been created, there was nothing else for its creator to do but flee to heaven.”

was like the Chilean official who set about a careful land survey just as subterranean rumblings announced the eruption that would hurl the land from under his feet.

Recast in definition form from: “The Constituent Assembly resembled the Chilean official who wanted to regulate property relations in land more firmly by a cadastral survey just at the moment when subterranean rumblings announced the volcanic eruption that was to hurl away the land from under his very feet.”

dying and despised could galvanize its own corpse only by reliving its June victory over and over, affirming itself by the constantly repeated damnation of the damned, a vampire living on the blood of the insurgents.

Recast in definition form from: “with its living body dying bit by bit, it was able to galvanize its own corpse into life only by continually recalling and living through the June victory over and over again, affirming itself by constantly repeated damnation of the damned. A vampire living on the blood of the June insurgents!”

constituent assembly, n.Definitions

constituent assembly