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.
我时不时会翻翻司汤达的《红与黑》，这本书的颜色指的是两种职业。第一种是军队，另一种是神职。背景设定在波旁复辟时期的法国，但几乎可以是西方的任何地方，几乎在工业革命之前的任何时候，因为这些职业对国家秩序的重要性不言而喻。
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