Vidal Gore — Eighteen Seventy [1565]

At one point I found myself actually on the floor of the Senate without having had to undergo the tedium of the electoral process. I had seen a crowd of lobbyists hurrying through frosted-glass swinging doors into a long narrow chamber. Out of curiosity I followed them. — Vidal Gore, Eighteen Seventy, 1565

Note

The narrator’s unexpected entry into the Senate floor suggests a sense of serendipity and the chaotic nature of political spaces, enhancing the atmosphere of casual formality in the political sphere.