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   4. The chosen and male shall go forth unto professions while the chosen and female shall be homely, fecund, docile and slightly artistic.

—Kennedy, A(lison) L(ouise)

Nuestro portero descubrio¤  , o creyo¤   descubrir, que su labor no se pod|¤a limitar a abrir la puerta del edificio, sino que e¤  l, el portero, era el sen‹  alado, el elegido, el indicado†para mostrarles a todas aquellas personas una puerta ma¤  s amplia y hasta entonces invisible o inaccesible; puerta que era la de sus propias vidas. Our doorman discovered (or thought he had discovered) that his tasks could not be limited to just opening the door of the buildingöbut that he, the doorman, was the one chosen, elected, singled out†to show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.

—Arenas, Reinaldo

De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum. Of two evils the lesser should always be chosen.

—Kempis, StThomas a'

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that yeshould shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

—Bible (NewTestament)