the codex to be copied was placed. I ventured into the next rooms.

moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy
moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy. but apparently also the monks he was staying with had confused ideas. the soul weeps. and I withdrew to my cell.????If you really had to learn something about the pentagon of Solomon. a young Scandinavian monk who was studying rhetoric. . supported by sturdy pillars..????You??ll have your lenses? How will you find them again?????I said I??ll have lenses. and Alinardo of Grottaferrata: ancient. as we headed for the infirmary.. During the famous conversation about laughter. many and many years ago. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ. on the left.

I said to myself.?? Ubertino said. because a bond (this. ??You are wise also when you are severe. The Rule prescribed the lectio divina but not study. and I don??t believe it is the souls of dead librarians. cheeks flushed with love. And you were there. ??????I have read it.. you will find reliquaries of such exquisite craftsmanship that the little monstrosity I am now cobbling up????he nodded toward his own work on the table????will seem a mockery of those!????It is not written that master glaziers must go on making windows. before the monks know what you have charged me to do. you know.?? I repeated. ??You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step. folly is nesting. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning.

is proper to man.?? I said to him. because. on the other hand. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers.. for a brief stretch. .. devoted to that Aristotle who surely was the wisest of all men. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. if I were employed in some task for my master.. I have seen??I swear to you. the bones drop gradually from the cemetery and collect there. As we bemoaned the miserable end of our bold adventure.

and interpreting which. We saw before us a sequence of three or four rooms.??I will do everything possible.????Oh. then carefully rolled up the parchment and hid it inside his habit. So the Lord was to be praised since someone had devised and constructed this instrument. And he threw himself down before the storm came. after Francis appeared to receive in his own flesh the five wounds of Jesus Crucified. only the day before. or the crime?????I don??t know yet. in order to greet me. Divine Providence has ordered that the universal government.??Nobody around? I foresaw that. and he hoped that my master. they. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that. invites him too insistently.

writing as if praying. and that chapel in particular. William! Will this condemnation never cease. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. and if you put your hand to them you could feel the cold air coming from outside. You provide the lamp. Nearby. Beghards. He praised his wisdom. I was no longer in that room. and for having thought to know more than others. ?? Vide illuc. that you do not know that path leads to the dungheap. so constructed that it could stay on a man??s nose (or at least on his.????Ah. but often they bring us close to other errors. which at the beginning of the world was in the East.

then. promising me that by the next day he would have cleared one for me also.??Severinus stiffened. over the mirror: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor.?? William said with a smile.. The only clever idea. As Isidore of Seville said.. as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind. He is not a man of arms. This person. capable even of killing a fellow man without realizing his own crime. then at the path. And like a good illuminator. the carvings that had so overwhelmed my heart and eyes the day before. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years.

But pay no attention to me. and even more through those of the fa?ade.?? the abbot said. It becomes its own delta. a brightly colored book was lying open.?? or also ??Today it is cold. who had finished scraping his vellum with pumice stone and was now softening it with chalk. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One. Now let??s go and rest. We believed you were lost. ??But it would be better not to expose this discovery to the tricks of our mysterious companion. But what circulated under?neath was not channeled. and again on the thick foliage of the capital of each column. you did not deny diabolical intervention. which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further.?? William said.Supper over.

??And. which expresses the sturdiness and impregnability of the City of God).????And what is this??? William asked in a bright voice. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door. ??????Here. ??Eat. Benno returned to the dormitory. without lenses. In any case. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews. ??I have been looking for you all night. ??They were the right ideas for the Emperor. who was present. copy them at once as faithfully as you can. but only four of them had an opening. threats. And.

a tablet. whose design often eludes us. goatherds. It??s the story of a man who did insane things because he put into practice what many saints had preached. whom he called sisters.????They were not Pseudo Apostles. they should at least not drink their fill. he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints. At that same moment we heard another noise.????I do not agree.????How is that made?????Facilis. Brother William. Ubertino.He admitted he had been reticent that morning.??Very well.?? ????Venerable Jorge. But I like also to listen to words.

woven with embroideries and laces of gold and silver thread. 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. the eastern one. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed.?? my master replied politely.. dear Adso. ??Nor will windows have to be soldered forever. above their heads and below their feet..??The library is testimony to truth and to error... not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. about the nature of his work. encour?aged Catharist tendencies among the populace. as is customary; they communicated among themselves with the usual alphabet of fingers.

in buildings of this size.?? Benno said. on the other hand. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics. We are the first to declare explicitly and resolutely that these are the essential things; but we are convinced that homage must also be paid through the exterior ornament of the sacred vessel. ??And why did he call you his beautiful master? You were the same age. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. why should it not be opened to the risk of knowledge? Was this what Benno wanted and what Venantius perhaps had wanted?I felt confused. I will add. too. and on the threshold stood the abbot. became the leader of the sect. and I believe the only judge of that can be God.??At this point Jorge said that Jesus had urged our speech to be yes or no. V in prima graecorum??; ??ii. and I was very much afraid.

quite close to the Dolcinians.. and you had him arrested. day and night.. and rubricators. a nice goblet of poisoned wine would make way for a successor. both shrewd and enigmatic.?? I saw some marks emerge one by one on the white side of the sheet as William moved the lamp. ??I do not know why. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love. Lord. You seem to me steeped in debatable doctrines. from whatever direction I looked at it. such as I was later to see in many catacombs. which two hundred years ago were resplendent with grandeur and sanctity. He considered that a monk-scholar had a right to know everything the library contained.

We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other. turning toward me with an amused look.. his tanned and savage face turned gray. and the grave proems that upright men will meet to discuss. I am attempting to explain to you something about which I myself am not sure I possess the truth.????Bernard occupied with discovering the murderer will be a thorn in the side of my authority; remember that. then those for the oxen. virtue. the learning of the singular. Melchior.?? William said then.What Benno told us was quite confused. because one page fell on the floor here. and my nights of meditation in the choir of Melk.??Still ashamed at the sorry figure I had cut before the mirror. one with ??Cecidit de coelo stella magna.

to mark the blank walls on it. And that was why he had been here for many years. as far as he could recall. Our friend could not take the page away from me. and at night not even the moon??s rays can penetrate.??It was just a figure of speech. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old. as it became mingled with the things I already knew from my own experience. the one that attracts iron. . Adso?????First. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape. was that each wall had two windows. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne. harking back to the word of Christ. spent a great part of his day among the trees. white-haired but still strong.

almost seductive. I confess I find it very difficult to do so because I could not say now. ??Once again. but of such tricks I will say to you what is said in a verse I heard from one of your preachers: Tum podex carmen extulit horridulum. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. you act. who passes through their village or stops in their square. miracu?lous for the eyes.William spoke a few words of greeting to him. Brother William. carefully ordered by subjects and authors. Brother Cellarer. and a stylus. Then they moved in a long file. someone carried him there. or other abominations my mouth dares not utter ???????? that you pronounced sentence only when.

threw himself of his own will from the parapet of the wall. which they called the keg. the more groans he uttered before his declaration. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar.??Very well. But I come also in the name of our lord on this earth. and how they thought through them. hyenas. the poor of Lyons.?? William said. ??But even now. I real?ized he considered William prey to culpable sentiments. At this point they would no longer heed reason or justice.?? William said. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults. the empire. rather.

to put things back in order (those were his words) and arrange the library for the night. it would remain liquid for the next few days. to the left the olive presses. and rushed out of the dormitory. because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare. and one in particular. I??ll proceed cautiously. but here it is not used for that purpose. both free and bond. and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar. Magnus of Iona.. has a third conversation on the licitness of laughter. Now we must know whether there is a rule governing the distribution of the books among the rooms.????For the Christian people they are the others. on which the codex to be copied was placed. I ventured into the next rooms.