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Atlas plate · Twelfth-century Paris

Héloïse Will Not Be a Plot

Paris, then the house she governed. The Latin that survives is not a romance.

From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.

From

Paris

Between

the uncle, the violence, the veil

Toward

The Paraclete

Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.

From
Paris, the Île de la Cité, a canon’s house
Toward
the Paraclete, in Champagne, the oratory she governed
Between
the short road that is also a life broken open
Distance
about 100 km, which is nothing, and everything
Obstacle
the uncle, the violence, the veil
Beloved
Héloïse
Boundary crossed
the world for the cloister
What stands between them
a mutilation, and her refusal to let desire be converted into a useful wound

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