Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation
Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle [The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century]. Vol. 2, Paris: A. Levasseur, c. 1830, ch. 22.
Current Citation
Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.