In Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, a book that is never far from me, the colours refer to two careers. The first is the army. The other is the priesthood. The setting is Bourbon Restoration France but it could be almost anywhere in the west, at almost any time until the dawn of industry, such was the importance of these vocations to the national order.
我時不時會翻翻司湯達的《紅與黑》，這本書的顏色指的是兩種職業。第一種是軍隊，另一種是神職。背景設定在波旁復辟時期的法國，但幾乎可以是西方的任何地方，幾乎在工業革命之前的任何時候，因為這些職業對國家秩序的重要性不言而喻。
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