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I couldn't help being amused. My daughter recently took a college literature course on Arthurian legend, and one of the books she read for the course, from which she quoted to me at length and with great hilarity, was the Art of Courtly Love,
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to which the letter, Cary's response, and many of the comments bear an alarming resemblance.