God is my witness that if Augustus, emperor of the whole world, thought fit to honor me with marriage and conferred all the earth on me for ever it would be sweeter and more honorable to me to be, not his empress, but your whore.
—Héloïse d’Argenteuil, first letter
I have committed a filthy sin: I have recognized my brother. We have made love and removed our names from the marriage wall. They say your brother's semen burns your viscera like Drano but in truth it burns you up and you're gone.
