Excerpt from Fragments From Heloise Abelard
Whether it be altogether seemly for an author to revise books that have been issued to the public is a question often raised in the newspapers: raised, but not settled, for authors go on just as they began, some revising and some refraining from revisions, according to their temperaments; and as the least knowledgeable among us are well informed on this subject, no purpose would be served by giving here a list of those who have revised and those who have not. My readers would prefer me to plunge straightway into my little tale of woe.
Abelard went to Blois to bemoan his separation from his dear Heloise in song and meditation. He wrote some songs at Blois, but there were no meditations, which, in my opinion, was a great loss to the book. It may have been that after writing for eighteen months the spring of my inspiration died suddenly without my perceiving it, or it may have been that, being in the midst of many circumstances and thoughts, something dropped out of my mind without my perceiving it Indeed, I cannot tell how this misfortune occurred any more than I can tell how I caught last year's cold, and as no cheap edition of Heloise and Abelard will be published for five years, I am in a quandary. A library edition of my writings may be published, but when? In one or two years an illustrated edition of Heloise and Abelard may hap, but I would make amends for my negligence or oversight at once. The restored pages, however, do not complete my work of revision.
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