Abelard and Heloise
In Our Time
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The Importance of Honesty
I'm not at all sure that he's deserted her. I think the whole flat of that is part of the kind of fiction. That's the abi, which you bring up. Because she's been sort of turfed out of her little place, and so she inherits Abilat. It's part of the way that they want to lay out their story. This is a powerful current theory now that in fact the correspondence really is something that they organized and plotted together in a way. And that may very well be true. For my own part, however, it just feels, when I read that first letter of Eloise's, that it has such a depth of honesty
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