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Dear Faldage: I had forgotten that ancient spelling of Abelard=Espaillart.
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I had forgotten that ancient spelling
You would of had to go a fur piece to come up with a better forgetting.
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Dear Faldage: I took a summer course in Medieval French in 1938. Enjoyed it, but lost all the books soon after, no access to right kind of library now. But occasionally I am finding things on Internet. Encyclopedia says Heloise's uncle Fulbert ordered deprivation of further posterity, because for reasons not stated Abelard induced her to enter cloister, even though he had married her. Wonder what became of her child.
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Heloise's uncle Fulbert ordered deprivation of further posterity
Anybody pays any attention to anyone named Uncle Fulbert deserves whatever may come.
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S'okay, Faldage, babe. I got it ... you do have to appear crazy ...
Where, indeed?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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CapK.... shhhh... discretion is the better part of valor.
You think this is easy???? *L*
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Sorry to be unable to appreciate your borrowed wit, Faldage. I read Catch-22 forty years ago, and all I remember is Milo arranging for Germans to bomb themselves.
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borrowed wit
I have always relied on the wittiness of strangers. I'm only about 30 years ago on Catch-22 and I lived it for four years.
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Dear Faldage: thirty years ago suggests you saw the movie. As the cliché goes, the book was much better. Or so review I just read says.
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thirty years ago suggests you saw the movie
Yup, three times. Same number of times I read the book. I thought they did a pretty good job translating it to the silver screen despite all the jumblings and conflation of characters.
First time I read it was before I was in* and I laughed. The second time was when I was in and I cried.
*Musta been early '60s.
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