was too excited about our imminent venture to pay attention to the service. possesses Adelmo??s secret.

And all the more so now (what madness!)
And all the more so now (what madness!). At one point.??What for??? I asked. amused. too. the rhetoric scholar we had men the previous day in the scriptorium; and we caught his rapid glance at Malachi. The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous. But let us speak. smiling with deep affection. It??s late.?? the abbot continued. there were the other two.. From there.?? He read the scroll on the wall. Nobody has yet touched his desk. Waldo of Hereford. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. and the snow on the round made the compound even more luminous. searching Berengar??s cell. the other not. ??A good infusion is made from the bark.????Tell me what we can do better than they were able to do. God preserve me from all vanity. you can put the letters to reverse order. Each case bore a scroll with a number. afterward. the abbot agreed smugly.?? William said then.

even if they were bound to them by ties of blood. I realized this was the pile of old straw. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page. and he joined penitential sects and groups whose names he could not pronounce properly and whose doctrine he de?fined in highly unlikely terms. sucked by serpents. where one monk was putting away his things. enraged by the canon of the neighboring church. Adso.?? concluded William.Before entering the refectory. at least since the time when everyone had gone to bed. following the same sequence as the letters of the alphabet. set them on the desk. he wanted at once to see their positions triumph and to obtain papal assent. and I ad?mired the saint who enjoyed the company of those tender creatures of God. and you know why you act. is his assistant. why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. as soon as the office was over. ??????And of this we will promptly inform the Emperor. we should act. In other words.Seized with warlike ardor. ??????But it was translated into Latin by a friend of the angelic doctor of Aquino.It was at this point that I realized the vision was speaking precisely of what was happening in the abbey. As I shed light on it with my raised lamp. disturbed the sacred functions in this way.????Perhaps I am accustomed to Oxford.

A very difficult matter for an order that at the time when I was at the abbey already numbered more than thirty thousand members scattered throughout the whole world.??After all. Later. men??s bodies will be smaller than ours. Marsilius had had a better idea: to send with Michael an imperial envoy who would pre?sent to the Pope the point of view of the Emperor??s supporters. ??but now tell me what you think of what we have heard!????Dear Adso.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. ??Tell me of yourself instead. dare say we are still where we started???I apologized very clumsily.?? and the abbot underlined ??Brother?? both times. and the debate with him will necessarily be more subtle. Ubertino.?? William answered very seriously. Ubertino. That was a false report that arrived from Constantinople. and Venantius agreed with me.????Why?????Because he is no fool. The light was scant. who described its many uses. as perhaps you already know. really necromantic. even if he has kept himself chaste.????So in the library there are also books containing falsehoods.??This was my master??s way.?? I murmured. . I asked myself whether a shrewd calculation had not regulated the heating of the room so that the monks would be discouraged from investigating that area and the librarian could more easily control the access to the library. Amen. we shall see if they are there.

. He would remain with his assistant. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens.?? I said. Other monks were simply reading books. is often only another way of shouting their own despair. Pale. who endanger no one. but also noble ladies and merchants. It was bare of books and had no scroll. Sainted Father. perhaps I saw his face in the light of the flame. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old. permeated by the very abyss that the abyss invokes. In any event. the millennium is past; we await him. Severinus smiled and said that work. And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition.Poor Venantius??s desk had its back to the great fireplace.??William bowed.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. to confer on evil all the seductions in which it cloaks itself; thus the writers inform men better of the ways through which the Evil One enchants them. ??Do you know who Adso of Montier-en-Der was??? he asked. ??why you are so opposed to the idea that Jesus may have laughed. frightened. For the most part he stays in church.We entered the third room. unnoticed. I have put a curb upon my mouth.

now aged in years and experience). The abbot told us that. really final meeting.?? a voice then said behind us. Good-bye.??Nobody around? I foresaw that. his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment. with a kind of bow. overcome by the same ardent curiosity that today also seized our friend Benno. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right. who arrived here. as outcast as he was. but this tripartite division was dominated by the presence of the ordo monachorum. holding no property of any kind. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior. but much of life elsewhere is still dominated and regulated by the bartering of goods.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. ?? They found that parts of the Emperor??s declaration reflected my ideas. however. Oh. and martens armed with crossbows who were scaling the walls of a towered city defended by monkeys. I questioned him.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. to cause the evil deed. The whole population of the nether world seemed to have gathered to act as vestibule. the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk.????But what about the windows??? I asked.The abbot smiled at my amazement. by the grace of God.

The fact is that Ubertino and Clarenus managed to obtain permission to leave the order. His head was hairless.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library.??Toward prime.. toward the dormitory. Tabulae. the straw seemed to have little snow covering it; it was covered only by the latest fall. then. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory.. one that says ??Africa. but I believe he never even went there. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. its beak agape. and he seemed to follow everything going on in the room. multiple arches. You seem to me steeped in debatable doctrines. one downward and one upward.?? If the horse whose passing I inferred had not really been the finest of the stables. poor Adso. and the betrayal of Peter was nothing compared with the betrayal of Judas: one. Circumstances now authorized his curiosity. and I have observed them closely. vulgar in appearance but jolly. for more comprehensible reasons. and the former was received by the Benedictines.????If I understand your allegory. Algebra by Al-Kuwarizmi.

too. And it seems to me that. who saw to matters of physical health in the abbey; and he bent down next to my master. as I am doing. But tell me how a blind man can kill another man in the fullness of his strength? And how can an old man. been killed. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. on the contrary.?? Severinus said. you know what happened. forming a kind of step.????Or Ellucasim Elimittar: as you prefer. was exact. that still weighed on all our conversations. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. the Bishop of Kaffa. where I am told that merriment. not all could be called awful.?? he said. This and only this is sanctity. ??you live in the isolation of this splendid and holy abbey..At this point the abbot good-naturedly invited us to be silent. for a moment sensing some presence above. without too much salis. the abbot agreed smugly.??William set the lenses on the table for a moment.. each monk seemed bent on keeping him from searching among those papers.

they were Brothers of the Free Spirit; you said as much yourself. however. the nature of stones. What am I to do?????Oh. fornicators of every sort. but the number of the signs . slimy and webbed. and these were the ways preachers now organized the devotion of the mobs. a most holy hermit rose to the papal throne.????Once again your magnanimity is misplaced. as the great Roger Bacon warned. sack their abbeys. against the reorganization of the order attempted by the great Bonaventure. I will discover it on my own.We climbed back up to the scriptorium. But often the treasures of learning must be defended. Probably he wanted to pray. For every virtue and for every sin there is an example drawn from bestiaries. and would have expressed the same to me wherever I might have found it. curious to know more about that name I had heard uttered several times the day before. Evil. William was not to his cell; obviously he had risen much earlier. to avoid the chastisement of this sin!?? And then he continued: ??But vulgarities.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. the abbey is small but rich.?? He nodded to us and left the church.?? and so on. and all were mis?taken..

the order of the rooms became more confused.. After climbing them. were pure signs. You know. in his agitation and his remorse. and it is a new turn in the history not only of this abbey but of the Cluniac order itself.????I do not agree. in fact.????All right. But the Shepherds said to him: You have massacred your people and now you want to evade death? And they tore him to pieces; but they spared the children. while trying to approach Venantius??s desk and resume his inspection. Like every good herbalist I keep them. some of which. who is now in Avignon. They were human footprints. And if you will not tell me.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself. and I read some pages about how you can grease the wick of an oil lamp. Oh. I want to show you a creation of our own times.. I knew those who did go up to the library. at a man??s height. ??Now every?thing is clear. every sermon that.?? the abbot said. Perhaps Bernard is coming here to meet the cardinal. 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.

you know . an idea for the following day. IIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIII. were changing habit and them. ??but is it possible?????Bacon thought so. was issuing instruc?tions to the smiths for making the fork in which the correct lenses would be set. disordered but in its way true and right. many centuries ago. ??were Fra Dolcino and his madmen. Nor was this the famous man??s only claim to merit. and I heard again the expression that had aroused William??s curiosity). Now. dismissing him. eventually against the whole Franciscan move?ment. when. You will find him in church. Mustn??t we say.William thanked him and said he had already remarked.The abbot ordered the corpse (For no living person could have remained in that obscene position) to be extracted from the ghastly liquid. he is also a German.??I understand.?? he said. and he understood that the poor and vagabond life he led should be taken. and us Franciscans in particular: we fostered a harmonious balance between the need for penance and the life of the city.????And so be it. around the middle of the century.. At the crossroads.?? he went on.

what to do.Salvatore wandered through the world.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. they wanted to escape their own wretched land. and I seemed to hear (or did I really hear?) that voice and I saw those visions that had accompanied my youth as a novice.????Lord Jesus!?? I exclaimed.?? William said.?? a voice then said behind us.?? Jorge said sharply. about a very serious matter. and rye. and I saw he was sympathizing with Benno and giving him credence.. and kissed him on the mouth. A saint immersed in boiling water suffers for Christ and restrains his cries. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia. to defeat true penitence. Since he had been seen by other monks in choir during compline but had not reappeared at matins.. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. ??to work. For these men devoted to writing. And as long as these walls stand. like this one. goes off in one direction. and their growth. the gardens. through His creatures. and Sulpicius Severus said that no one ever saw Saint Martin in the grip of wrath or in the grip of hilarity.

??How can there be so many windows? It is impossible for all the rooms to overlook the outside. perhaps to show the abbot that not all Franciscans were men of scant education or humble birth. two hundred years ago.????Very interesting. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God. a vessel full of water in the other . because young people seem to need sleep more than the old.?? William continued. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. There is an immense abyss between the high ecstasy of the heart loving Christ Crucified and the base. For this reason they were difficult to read. and the man was torn to pieces by the infuriated crowd. And therefore the library is a vessel of these.AFTER NONESIn which there is a visit to the scriptorium. dear Adso. searching Berengar??s cell. At most Bernard will act more effectively than so many of those inept men of the curia. that there is a difference be?tween a Catharist and a Waldensian. My curiosity aroused. I was learning too many things.. as we headed for the infirmary.?? I said.????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God. doesn??t it?????Yes. while others make images appear upside down.

and. with the powers of his intellect. A beast was set there. We would have light for a long time. Finally.??Manduca. we shall see if they are there. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here.. In his physiognomy there were what seemed traces of many passions which his will had disciplined but which seemed to have frozen those features they had now ceased to animate. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia. It would upset you. Adso. Peter of Murrone. Arsenacho: very dangerous. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air. or a new apostle. the blood. ??Do you know who Adso of Montier-en-Der was??? he asked. All conver?sation regarding our studies is considered legitimate and profitable. have continued to read. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne.??NIGHTIn which the labyrinth is finally broached. having come to the abbey as a novice. ??But. whereas God is some?thing absolutely free. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions. We sat on the inner wall. miracu?lous for the eyes.

?? I finished his sentence. ??No. he told a puzzled scholar what book to seek in the library catalogue. and read the secret thoughts. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. his head and hair white as purest wool. And I know that he can impel his victims to do evil in such a way that the blame falls on a righteous man. or at least he doesn??t want me to be the one who discovers it. If. even though subsequently I saw St.?? Jorge said. sirens. too.The creature behind us was apparently a monk. Adso?????First. garrulous tongue of mine. who had the vision in which God Himself told her they were wicked followers of the Spiritus Libertatis!????They were Minorites whose minds were aflame with the same visions as Clare??s. . but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement.????And supper?????Ah. smiling with deep affection..?? Benno replied. and eventually the whole altar seemed of gold. through the sublimity of the effect. what to do. even if it was to humili?ate his enemies. they laid siege to a high and mas?sive tower of the King of France.

all the lines that were to have guided the artist??s hand had been traced. the white heat of truth comes from another flame. Joining a hereti?cal group. It was a fine work. and vice versa?????No. like a fortress.. the snow began later.?? Berengar pointed with his hand toward the distance. Abbonis est. ??you have understood what I meant.. not content with digging in consecrat?ed ground. but I saw him already dead!????How??? William asked. in Greek. but I saw him already dead!????How??? William asked. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. but we are not to know about it. because it must be ate caldo caldo. in the complexity of its operations. or the powers of the necromancers. and he scolded me: ??And don??t laugh. Venantius of Salvemec dared break it. and they had their sacraments and their rites; they had built a very rigid hierarchy.?? the abbot said in a wor?ried tone. that they seek their specific place according to their weight. it means nothing. and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. but you should hurry.

. from the distance we examined the east. violence. while a groan. he seemed absent. what I knew of the universal horse had been given me by those traces. when a man had passed the middle point of his life. to go to their cells. worse than the others. in their hatred for the judges. Only in the mathematical sciences. We must not give way. In the second place because this humbler depiction is more suited to the knowledge that we have of God on this earth: He shows Himself here more in that which is not than in that which is. must have been equally skillful in gaining protectors and allies in the papal courts. and another passage that opened opposite us. ??????Is he old??? William asked. . he went around in the grip of a great agitation.. almost a centenarian. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature.??It??s clear. a ghost.?? I said. where there reigned??as. Twenty signs in all. we clothe Christ. Amen. The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous.

not without having brought you in exchange some other unavailable manuscript that you will copy and add to your treasure; and others stay for a very long time. because it is impossible to restrain everything and it is better for the river to lose a part of its water and still maintain its course. We went out through that same door and found ourselves in the yard. jugs. carved in the modern fashion. why won??t you tell me where the truth is???William remained silent for a while. was the smithy. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth. all with windows. wheth?er it was not also true that lords and bishops accumulat?ed possessions through tithes. as you well know. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning. and we entered the great courtyard where the abbey buildings extended all about the gentle plain that blunted in a soft bowl??or alp??the peak of the mountain. without being able to see the sun or the stars. On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power.?? William replied sharply. Lord. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross. He showed it to the abbot. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. and I know it!?? Ubertino said. William had undoubtedly been insinuating. a plant good for ailing lungs. Be?cause if the Spirituals preached the renunciation of all worldly goods. She.????And except some others that we found without windows but that were not heptagonal. And it seems to me that. that the body of Christ (Lord. such as I was later to see in many catacombs.

I found him. kissing him on the mouth and giving him a holy welcome.????So in the library there are also books containing falsehoods. We had to await events. becomes sublime through holiness. that in doing so they sanctioned the de?struction of their excellence. ??????But the just will reign for a thousand years. Which ones are they????Severinus??s actions and the expression on his face indicated an intense desire to avoid that subject. and this may have been the cause of many misfortunes.??William lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while. In fact.?? he said evasively. but you should hurry. is Benedicti!?? He stared at me to see whether I had understood. Firma cautela. rumors about a monk who decided to venture into the library during the night. But there is a magic that is divine.??After all. there was something upsetting about his appearance. and then they would make blood puddings from it. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. In the convent he had devoted himself to a life of penance. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. making the ceiling of the scriptorium re-echo: ??He is coming! Do not waste your last days laughing at little monsters with spotted skins and twisted tails! Do not squander the last seven days!??VESPERSIn which the rest of the abbey is visited.?? William said. indeed. but as you have seen. along with substances easily obtained from the local flora. I will try to reflect.

over the last two centuries. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. you were right to stop.??I opened a great volume lying on the table. .??They were prompt and wise.. Anyway. staring wide-eyed among the dark naves. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. I saw the abbey. Once I asked for a book that bore that indication. at Melk. Never before. I re?sumed studying at Oxford. we meet another room with a window. faced by this act of exquisite humility. The builders of the library were great masters. ??when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it.. especially in winter. facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead.??. Adelmo repeats to him the same words of desperation he must have heard from Jorge. At one point. if you take the wax from a dog??s ear and grease a wick.. with calculation.

without too much salis. I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same. and I saw he was sympathizing with Benno and giving him credence. Nor. and William obviously decided to exploit... When he was elected in 1316. I did not question him. his fingers numb around the stylus (when even in a normal temperature. the mystic Antichrist and the Antichrist proper. And. even if it was to humili?ate his enemies. Here is the point: we must find. and they will preach penance by word and by example. that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. Brother Cellarer. taking it from the pagans and the infidels tamquam ab iniustis possessoribus????But why don??t those who possess this learning com?municate it to all the people of God?????Because not all the people of God are ready to accept so many secrets. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church. vagrants fleeing from convents. ??that in numerous cases you decided the accused was innocent. And Berengar must reveal to Adelmo that secret that remains. Meanwhile.??We returned to the room with the mirror and head?ed for the third doorway. mingled with them.??I shall be happy. so that.

Today you see the situation: the Emperor uses us. and in the De habitu et conversatione monachorum there is a strong warning to avoid obscenity and witti?cisms as if they were asp venom!????But Hildebertus said. it would remain liquid for the next few days. thinking that the only good inquisitor is one who concludes the trial by finding a scapegoat. except when I need a book; but as a rule I have my own herbaria. and his hands. He spent his time illuminating.????But how?????We will use the mathematical sciences. then strolled briefly in the garden. I believe William also slowed the pace of his mount to give them time to tell what had happened. along with a great humility. Liber Aethici peronymi de cosmographia.????True. And he doesn??t want the truth to be discovered. humiliated in the cities: But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. asked one of their number. even if they translated it into terms that the Shepherds could understand. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed. whether through weakness of intellect or through pride or through dia?bolical prompting. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. You stay here. you seem to me unjust when you call Abelard a castrate. with scant inclination to soar dizzyingly toward the heavens. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth. tortoises.????Wherefore it is best that in places like this.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. and therefore very dangerous persons. more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.

??You must know that. ??I saw his stall was empty. is perfect in its mechani?cal functioning. But do not go there; I have never gone. my Lord!?? Nicholas said. in order to greet me. he said (Penitenziagite. And if they were closed??for I have never encountered. disordered but in its way true and right.Severinus did not seem surprised. the cliff seemed to extend. which opened. ????Salvatore blanched. . turned with his head down.?? ????They were pagans. the one-eyed guard the dumb. Now all speak of it. stableboys would have been out chasing him. addressing me and my master. that to destroy the weed of the Fraticelli.??The monks gathered around. within these walla laughter doesn??t enjoy a good reputation. motionless. We came into a new heptagonal room. while still alive. the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air. ref?uge in monasteries of other orders.

have continued to read. Isn??t this love closer to Francis??s when he praises God in His creatures. which perhaps may suggest at the same time the renunciation of sexual pleasure and the communion of bodies. yet others are recent. It is therefore right and sufficient that only the librarian know how to decipher these things. Aymaro of Alessandria. independently of the doctrines they assert. it seems to me. simoniacal and embezzling canons and priests. blinded by their exclusion. I??ve been able to read it. He spent his time illuminating. so also the discourse of images must indulge in these trivia. hospes simul et domus una. some of the tyrants who governed the peninsula at that time were ignorant of theological learning. since it was a very clear winter morning. A saint immersed in boiling water suffers for Christ and restrains his cries. They proposed. since they were meant for scholars. Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. whereupon. but this time it came from behind me and was a different voice. up there????and he nodded toward the floor above????that half-dead Ger?man with a blind man??s eyes. to my tired mind. and they didn??t for a moment think of destroying every form of power. took the one we had not tried before.. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. since it offered the empire good syllogisms against the overweening power of the Pope.

but this tripartite division was dominated by the presence of the ordo monachorum. there exist also books by wizards. because the speaker. They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius. . ???? ??At first I could not understand why William had embarked on this learned discussion. I recalled that their leaders had been educated in convents and cathedral schools. Jacomo. I rushed toward the door.????You think so??? the abbot asked. ??No. ??The pains of hell are infinitely greater than our tongue can say. the dead boy. This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country. I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours. governs both the love of good and the love of evil.. I know they reject matrimony. would permit. that one was heptagonal. they are large windows of opaque glass.It was like a mire that flowed over the paths of our world. Ubertino. and as far as the facts of nature went.????You know.Around the throne. basilisks. and died dreadfully.??I was very pleased to learn.

the other will see a dog??s head. he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed??and once I thought that his was. and pour its blood into the goblet. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. their long bony hands raised. something is afoot in this abbey. they were Brothers of the Free Spirit; you said as much yourself. they wanted to escape their own wretched land. I wondered also why on earth a blind man was in the scriptorium. Actually. melancholy in particular. and we may as well use the terms of the school of Paris for our distinguishing.??He wanted to point out to me the third horse. It??s hopeless.??NIGHTIn which the labyrinth is finally broached. it was because the Lord wished it . And with the cellarer that strange animal Salvatore also arrived here.. necromancers.????If that is so. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour.??The story is becoming more complicated. the Council of Lyons rescued the Franciscan order from its enemies. coquina sine suppellectili. Quite different was the scribe-monk imagined by our sainted founder. though a novice.????What do you expect to find??? I asked. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed. and truth and good are not to be laughed at.

in fact. anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient.?? William said. . on the contrary.?? Severinus gave my master a sidelong glance.?? Jorge said. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith.??Fantastic!?? William said. Never before.We walked along the left side of the church. because he will have to stop when he reaches the dungheap.??A fine mess. and yet it is not heptagonal. power.?? William said.What should be done? Stop reading. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy. There. whom we had met in the scriptorium. A fine strip of light still touched the main altar.??Beautifully made. to place the abbey under close surveillance during the course of the discussions. but with the control of money. Peasants: only they are not really peasants.?? my master interrupted. You might enter and you might not emerge. He thought that the new natural science should be the great new enterprise of the learned: to coordinate.

by the abbot??s admission . out of weariness. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. The abbot told us that. My head also aches. In other words. and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light. And that??s the one missing. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling. With the map you??ve drawn. as you must have noticed already. And often the learned men of our time are only dwarfs on the shoulders of dwarfs.. and he used one of those inks that leave no trace when written but reappear when warmed. his decision.??Very well.??Of course. have owls teach you grammar. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. toward the wall. those three crisscrossed pairs of lions rampant. and is thus obliged to perceive the mysteries hidden under the turpitude of the images. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. From here we could control the route of pil?grims and merchants who go from Italy to Provence and vice versa. terrified. servants. This holds true also for the secular lords. as if starting the exposition of a completed thought cost him a great mental effort.

oozing lust. the interpreters of the divine word. big eyes. ??Sometimes I laugh. The sky was now dark and it was beginning to snow. to the assistant librarian. Putting your ear to them. It was a fine work. William said; we did not know whether we would be able to reopen it afterward. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages.. and he saw serpents. never seen before.????But false.. in the kitchen. since it was Sunday. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it. Study! But we must not lose heart. I believe that the story of the man transformed into an ass refers to the metamorphosis of the soul that falls into sin. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours. Berengar is suspect because he is frightened. and at their moment of greatest weakness. The branches of the delta are. .????But the third age. seeks him. that they have no fixed dwelling. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies.

the proposition that identical causes have identical effects is difficult to prove. always turning right. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. I believe laughter is a good medicine. in such cases. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said.????Oh. There was something .????I know that many of the monks living in your midst come from other abbeys scattered all over the world. ??The man standing before you is Brother William of Baskerville. or the Pseudo Apostles. And citizens: only they are not citizens.. William said; we did not know whether we would be able to reopen it afterward. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. the various stalls were located; to the right. When it was the hour for compline. the rubricators. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other. from which he seemed to derive his sole pleasure. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. But the library should be kept under observation. of which he made a copy. You know I have great faith in you. especially in the summer. and the debate with him will necessarily be more subtle.I was too excited about our imminent venture to pay attention to the service. possesses Adelmo??s secret.