April 20

Today was much like yesterday — all but indistinguishable, really.

Apropos of nothing, today’s Forgotten English calendar page commemorates the death of Peter Abélard, of Abélard and Héloïse fame:

He wrote of her in his autobiography, “I considered all the usual attractions for a lover and decided she was the one to bring to my bed, confident I should have an easy success for at that time I had youth and exceptional good looks as well as my great reputation to recommend me, and feared no rebuff from any woman I should choose to honor with my love.”

I’ll bet it was his humility she really fell in love with!

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