Sundays with Stendhal 4

Sundays with Stendhal 4

Julien fell asleep, dreaming of honors for himself and human rights for everyone else.

(The Red and the Black, vol 2, chapter 39, ‘The Ball’.  The translation is a little loose, but captures the contemporary sense pretty well, wouldn’t you say?  More traditionally: “Julien fell asleep, dreaming of honors for himself and liberty for everyone else.”  The original … “par son imagination, qui revait des distinctions pour lui et la liberte pour tous.”) 

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Charles Gittings

Oh, I dunno…  seems like “freedom” could work as well or better depending on who we’re talking about.