From The Red and the Black, Volume I, Chapter 34, The Hotel de la Mole (free translation), and yes, I will manage to get it back to Saturdays!:
The abbe Pirard to Julien … ”The Marquis does not like scribblers bloggers, I warn you; it is his one antipathy. Know Latin, Greek if you can, the history of the Egyptians, of the Persians, and so forth; he will honour you and protect you as a scholar. But do not go and write a single page in French blog post at Volokh Conspiracy or anywhere else, especially upon grave subjects, that are above your position in society; he would call you a scribbler blogger and take a dislike to you. What, living in a great nobleman’s mansion, don’t you know the Duc de Castries’s saying about d’Alembert and Rousseau: ‘That sort of fellow wishes to argue blog about everything, and that other wishes to comment extravagantly and betimes rudely on everything at the blog, and neither has a thousand crowns a year?’”
PersonFromPorlock says:
I take it, then, that pajamas would be de trop?
January 17, 2010, 3:11 pmKenneth Anderson says:
Thanks – I really will get it back to Saturdays, as I don’t want to distract from Sunday Song Lyrics – Jonathan, apologies!
January 17, 2010, 3:29 pmtroll_dc2 says:
Prof. Anderson, do you have a thousand crowns?
January 17, 2010, 3:31 pm[insert here] delenda est says:
Isn’t convention to underline or italicise the new text, as well as strike the deletions?
January 17, 2010, 6:38 pmlay says:
good to know, thank you
January 17, 2010, 7:10 pmKenneth Anderson says:
Delenda: I figure people know the original well enough that I don’t need to do that :)
January 17, 2010, 8:15 pmKenneth Anderson says:
troll dc 2: I wonder what a thousand crowns would be in hypothetical purchasing power parity? I used to have some idea, based on some Stendhal article I read, but now I don’t recall. Anyway, whatever it is, after tuition payments, I’m sure I don’t!
January 17, 2010, 8:17 pmCrunchy Frog says:
Shut up, he explained.
January 17, 2010, 8:37 pmHelian says:
Stendhal belongs in the non-fiction section of the library. You’ll learn more about psychology from reading one of his novels than from all the tomes that have been churned out by the professionals since Freud.
January 18, 2010, 4:43 pmKenneth Anderson says:
Helian: could not have put it better myself!
January 18, 2010, 11:10 pmVolokh Conspiracy: Saturdays with Stendhal @ Helian Unbound says:
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January 19, 2010, 7:56 pmv says:
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January 19, 2010, 10:11 pm