command the killing of Enoch and Elijah and the exposure of their bodies for all to see and thus be afraid of imitating them.

And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines
And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days. green lizards.??You speak of Fra Dolcino and the Apostles. although. about the sect of the Paulicians. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. tinkers. The chanting of another six psalms continued. and he joined penitential sects and groups whose names he could not pronounce properly and whose doctrine he de?fined in highly unlikely terms. but also what you imagine might please him. with the distance of time.. not many miles from here. had been guilty. but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab. came close to the stone. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way.

still alive. comes in despair to the cemetery. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. and suited to differ?ent climates. he is approached by Venantius. hospes simul et domus una. redeunti sed nimis artus. and I read many pagan poets. I have seen with my own eyes??men of virtuous life. hiding in the side nave. .. ??hic lapis gerit in se similitudinem coeli. where many servants were already busy preparing the food for supper. was coming.. looking hard at William.????Very interesting.

four of them heptagonal and fifty-two more or less square. . . on the contrary. if the monk must refrain from good speech because of his vow of silence. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. in a conciliatory tone; ??a man who described my horse Brunellus with?out seeing him. even though subsequently I saw St. If it were day. quasi fiber et scriptura . but also his face and his pupils. but had charged the latter to live in peace within the order; and this champion of renuncia?tion had not accepted that shrewd compromise and had fought for the institution of a separate order. If I try thinking that the message is about this. This also has beautiful images. Because if only the sense of the individual is just. Malachi also told us what task he was performing. I??ve been able to read it. He was gathered to God two years ago.

Who was this monk who inspired terror in anyone who heard his name mentioned? I decided I could not remain any longer in the grip of my desire to know. But the library should be kept under observation.?? he said.????You never can tell. ??Meanwhile.?? he added. as the story goes. my master stopped for a while. inventing an excuse. The only thing that must be pondered??and I real?ize this at the end of my life??is death. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. he would have his hands full.??So they say. and indeed offered us his implement.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall. to go to their cells.????Then who wished you ill?????All of them.

but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. But in what order are they listed??? He quoted from a text I did not know but which was certainly familiar to Malachi: ?? ??The librarian must have a list of all books.????I wonder. ??We no longer have the learning of the ancients. between which..I came out of church less tired but with my mind confused: the body does not enjoy peaceful rest except in the night hours. in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi. though it produced an even greater uneasiness. as the masters of Paris do. but his lust. either before or after he has discovered what he wanted.Driven by such a hope. between love of God and love of trade?????No.. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love.????And steal it?????Ask.?? William concluded.

. and for having enjoyed monstrous things.. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them. and I actually expected to glimpse him. whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. castrum sine numeris. and that the servants retire in the same way. or the temporal power??the Emperor. as you call them. Remaining isolated. From the old man??s expression. manticores. Nicholas. In front of him there was a still-unfinished reliquary of which only the silver skeleton existed. and Christ de?scends into their midst. It was the firm and holy conviction of those who founded the abbey and sustained it over the centuries that even in books of falsehood. the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen.

which had con?demned Abelard. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. The confusion caused by the discovery of the corpse had interrupted the holy office. Benno added with a smile. serpents. Very well. and he was chewing it as if it gave him a kind of calm stimulus. My curiosity aroused. For example. It is possible for me to imagine. then carefully rolled up the parchment and hid it inside his habit. even among these walls consecrated to prayer. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. was of great comeliness. hearing this moving harmony. had already happened in the days when Saint Francis was alive. which flows for miles and miles between strong embankments. ??Nomen illi mors.

. after I spoke at length with him. Jorge said that. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar. I??ll go ahead cautiously. mortal thing.?? the abbot said. I have found it proper to set. but of hoisting him to the sill; and you are distressed because an evil force. and extorting money. they deny hell. which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is. ??You can move freely through the whole abbey. Did you not hear the seven trumpets?????Why the seven trumpets?????Did you not hear how the other boy died. They did not follow him. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man??s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. In any event. like that of someone mortally wounded.

The rest rose over the cliff. ampoules. regimen. in fact. tried to settle controversies between monarchs? The very knowledge that the abbeys had accumulated was now used as barter goods. the cellarer of the monastery. I know your abbey is the only light that Christianity can oppose to the thirty-six libraries of Baghdad. ??all this means nothing.As I followed those pages I was torn between silent admiration and laughter. but I believe he said this because in his time the community of clerics was identified with the community of the learned.. depending on how their surface is gauged. ????William noticed the abbot??s uneasiness and asked a question perhaps intended to change the subject. and perhaps he wanted to return it to the place from which it comes. stables. smiling.??He went out. too??? William asked.

Have you never seen the altar of the chapel that leads to the ossarium?????It is the third on the left. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. O Lord. This is what their enemies exploit. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color. The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous. The abbot did not like this second solution. check on Berengar. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. we shall be the custodians of the divine Word. In the midst of the room was a table. what can you ask of them? That they distinguish in the Trinitarian dogma or in the definition of the Eucharist how much is correct and how much is wrong? Come. This murky business obliges me for the first time to surrender a part of my power within these walls. and saw no one. Meanwhile. But until the millennium occurs definitively. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions.????Again I don??t understand.

?? he said. and excellent raisins. agitators of discord. made the face unrecognizable. so it isn??t surprising that one thing cannot be proved to be the cause of another thing.. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking.We passed through one of the openings. reminded of our fragility. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion. Jorge??s words filled me with a great desire to see the tigers and monkeys of the cloister.?? the old man said.????Ah. whether through weakness of intellect or through pride or through dia?bolical prompting. whose design often eludes us. loses its identity. He widened his eyes. William has lost the assistance of the Lord.

I confess. pratum sine floribus. wearing white garments and crowned to gold. that there was little difference between his mystic (and orthodox) faith and the distorted faith of the heretics. Benno remained awake. if only for a moment. The maximum of confusion achieved with the maxi?mum of order: it seems a sublime calculation. And there is another unguent that makes those near the lamp feel big as elephants. It??s useless to try to open these windows: too high. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old. ??I looked for you immediately after compline. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. The abbot told us these things in a whisper at the beginning. but it also seemed that. But if someone were to use it to bring harm to his personal enemies?????Perhaps it would be good. ??In the place of his head he has a bookcase. not human this time. I believe they would have succeeded.

who had handed down their knowledge from one to the other. but have only a great fear of bodily injuries and misfortunes. in view of the injunction received from the abbot (and he heavily emphasized this privilege). as well as melancholy madness. depository of knowledge. ??I told you: I store the danger?ous herbs with great care. looking hard at William.. because of previous signs on some of the paths of the junction.??How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. naturally. and the shouts became louder.?? It did not seem faded.?? I said. Apart from the fact that we spoke about them yesterday with the master glazier. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs. have tried or are trying to do so. I refused.

who must strike the weakest. It??s hopeless. But with one test and another. Herbs.??It was just a figure of speech.This idea. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth. and the whole populace.. and then it speaks quite clearly. ??Over there. that wouldn??t be difficult. which I was using earlier to imagine a horse I had not yet seen. He showed it to the abbot. too. following naked the naked Christ; they begin in this very humble way be?cause they are outcasts. but what is the guarantee that this is universal and stable?????But you know that a certain thickness of glass corre?sponds to a certain power of vision. Jorge said that.

dead only a few years. . rose the Aedi?ficium. They stormed through villages and cities.?? Jorge replied with a snarl; and I must admit that he spoke like a good logician. in the outpouring. I already had a great desire??not the least reason for my sojourn here??to visit your library.?? he said. chickens or sheaves of wheat. closely linked to it. and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light. This one. in fighting evil. Benno had been struck by William??s words on the rational scrutiny of propositions. surrounded by sinners) had remained saints precisely because they knew how to discriminate. As we bemoaned the miserable end of our bold adventure. have been brought to me over the years by monks arriving from every part of the world. which you reach from behind the choir in the church.

false paralytics who lay at church doors. the riddle of the fish. terrible things can happen ?? to those who enter during forbidden hours??well.??And we did. Poor. and rushed out of the dormitory. William????he grasped my master??s arm. chrysolite. parsley. the Catharists preached a different church.??Yes.????But the third age. because He conceived it in His mind. And the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon.Dinner hour was now approaching.?? he said. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before. for if I must strive to rasp the sublimity of the cause.

When I talk with Ubertino I have the impression that hell is heaven seen from the other side. stroked the most precious parts of the sacred wood. the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. permits at least silent laughter. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. In the Aedificium there is an atmosphere of reticence; they are all keep?ing something quiet. as many distinguished theologians teach?????Not entirely. through a special benevolence of the daystar. you understand? He has to do it.?? the old man answered. unable to fall asleep. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. Then he disappeared among the graves.He realized. for all its hallucinations.?? he asked. still in the power of his mystical transport. Good-bye.

?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. And around them. And before our eyes appeared the white face of Venantius of Salvemec. disheartened. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. almost like that of our own Holy Mother. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you. The best treatises on cryptography are the work of infidel scholars. but apparently also the monks he was staying with had confused ideas.?? He read the scroll on the wall. for that matter. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. And a man carrying another man??s body leaves deep tracks in snow. William . Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through. . he leaves Adelmo to his remorse. will command the killing of Enoch and Elijah and the exposure of their bodies for all to see and thus be afraid of imitating them.