I want to thank the Florida bookseller who anonymously referred a customer to me today to buy a copy of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Thanks for the business of course, but thank you also for the short conversation I had with the customer — an elderly woman who told a slightly off-colored story from her childhood about innocently trying to break the ice in awkward social circumstances by asking about a vocabulary word she’d learned from an Oscar Wilde book that she’d borrowed from her father’s library.