.. if Daniel Day Lewis wants to play King Philip the II of France.. he may look for inscrutable.. arcane (?)... analogies .. between.. King Philip the II of France.. and Lincoln.. Abraham Lincoln.. and something.. inscrutable.. enigmatic.. might happen.. he might.. he may... find them... I'm thinking this only by blankest intuition.. where King Philip II of France truly is supposed to be one of the dastard kings of history.. a true arch-villain of the age.. or arch-enemy of the age.. is what King Philip the II of France... is supposed to.. have been.. and then.. Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln... what about.. when the William Safire Abraham Lincoln .. decides to bite-the-bullet and assume.. powers not befit a President of the United States.. I believe that's what happens .. at the very, very beginning of William Safire's novel.. "Freedom".. wait.. the novel.. it's called.. "Freedom".. I think.. I think it is .. this novel.. written by.. by William Safire...