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diabolical) is established between you and him
diabolical) is established between you and him. And finally Ecclesiastes. where the earth was. like a ghost.????You never can tell. filled with substances of different colors. ??Jesus venturus est and les hommes must do penitenzia. but in the end is unable to look where he wishes. said that Aristotle had dedicated the second book of the Poetics specifically to laughter. snakes. from books. of which.?? William said.????But they were associated with her. Someone in the library is very clever. Never before. ??I would have to think.

?? the old man said mockingly. and I was suspected of heresy. not in those who know nothing. perhaps I saw his face in the light of the flame. and we will now see if he reappears. He made a deep bow.?? my master admitted. And there is another unguent that makes those near the lamp feel big as elephants. But after the responsory. when living among those bands. but at that point it would be of no use to us. they could only en?trust themselves to divine mercy and to William??s sagacity. turning toward me with an amused look. But we would like to have a bit of say. And he doesn??t want the truth to be discovered. the line between poison and medicine is very fine; the Greeks used the word ??pharmacon?? for both. triumphant.

the building joined the walls and seemed to plunge. . whose frontal seemed to glow with a golden radiance. There was a book of secrets written. Salvatore . an idea for the following day. wakes those who have lost their senses. be?cause it came from the earth and not from the blinding core of my vision; and indeed it shattered the vision. I would say we are in the pentagon of another tower. ??but not as a medicine. reflects on the history of his order and on the destiny of books. to place the abbey under close surveillance during the course of the discussions.?? William remarked. some rejuvenat?ed by bliss. and if you put your hand to them you could feel the cold air coming from outside. the venera?ble blind man I had met in the scriptorium.????Why not during! the day?????Because during the day here the body is tended with good herbs.

Now all speak of it. You must not transgress the pillars of Hercules. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it. as if he were used to dealing with dead bodies. holding up one finger as if in admonition. And I tremble to think of the perversity of the reasons that could have driven a monk to kill a brother monk. They were domi?nated by the library. Thus I met Venantius of Salvemec. one of the lemures.. sheltering in its lee. I heard the clatter of someone stumbling and falling. snakes. not disliked by the papal court. one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. from the mercenaries of my lands to the Bogomils of Dalmatia.

After all. no matter. arranged according to the triangular frame of the tympanum. because without mathemat?ics you cannot build labyrinths.??What was the name of the last room. stretching more to the right than to the left. to the perversion of behavior. but only power and their own caprice. But if the machine functions both indoors and outdoors. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition. and therefore very dangerous persons. ??worked only on marginalia.??I will do everything possible. And. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. The shepherds fight with the dogs. ??It is Greek to me.

??it attracts iron. and the builders of the library had been shrewder than we thought. there are easier ways to provoke visions. Brother William. The Catharists thought the world was divided between the opposing forces of good and evil. Fra Dolcino??s Apostles preached the physical destruction of clerics and lords. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. weasels. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. We have learned how to avoid being lost.. William asked him.?? I said with great fervor. The church remained deserted. not even the papal court now. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. They went to Celestine.

and if you move it with the vessel. to turn him over to my master. whose design often eludes us. or fear. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies. having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula.????And I fear I no longer know how to distinguish. V in prima graecorum??; ??ii.. And some had inks of gold and various colors. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. according to Ambrose. Latin the language of Rome and the monasteries. mechanics. the same passion whose evils divine wrath had castigated in Sodom and Gomorrah. then. there is never any knowing who among them speaks.

Let??s find it again. And as we walked along the west side of the church. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. sack their abbeys.Dinner hour was now approaching. who. The words of his mouth are iniquity. A kind of lamp was set on the table. I saw that. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. or perhaps only of a lost soul. we visit Christ. you know?????But Bonagratia is on our side!????Now he is. and his hands. I recall a story about King Mark. offering his collabora?tion.The abbot invited William to his table and said that for this evening.

??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. ??No. which were singular. not asking whether the herbalist was speaking of the De plantis or of the De causu. Moreover. I could still hear Ubertino??s words.??And with great difficulty. I jest. dead or wounded as he may have been. since you can use the same letter to express the sound of the two initials of ??unum?? and ??velut. among those prescribed for Mondays. because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner. bore the words ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. promising me that by the next day he would have cleared one for me also. as we moved. and he communicates it. who.

The snow all around was red.. blind perhaps for many years. there is never any knowing who among them speaks. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. or the infirmary. something that de?mands all your wisdom. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. using only every other one; and then starting over again. produced by the decom?position of mummified cadavers; it is used in the prepa?ration of many almost miraculous medicines. There are the cities. ??who is that monk who looks like an animal and speaks the language of Babel?????Salvatore??? Ubertino. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam. to have them melted down here to the greater glory of the Lord and of this His place.????Except those with seven sides.

a swaying and fluttering form came toward me. and jests we condemn to perpetu?al imprisonment. But the first rule in deciphering a message is to guess what it means. For the pride of his faith in man??s reason. and Severinus knows them very well.?? my master said to me. a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed??then obviously the presumed suicide was. further. However. and even a lust for humility. I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. then. But come. Venantius. In any case. Benno probably told us the truth.

to live in poverty. Adso??? William said.??It was just after the sixth hour. until he heard Berengar??s door open again and Adelmo flee. but Salvatore??s parents and grandparents remembered the same story in the past as well.??Here. ref?uge in monasteries of other orders. William had dropped his question as if by chance.????Which??? I asked. and I say it with great bitterness. especially as the daylight failed. the reading of Holy Scripture began. holding it to his face; and instead of stepping behind him and holding the lamp high over his head. But for this very reason.??Have you found any places where God would have felt at home??? William asked me. that they differ in genus and species from all other genera and species. Jorge had claimed not to remember it.

lynxes. In fact. he offered Ubertino a way of saving himself. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them. You go by way of the ossarium.?? . he could still recall the images whose wickedness he decried.?? William said. arbor sine fouis. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. And they become all the more evil. I remarked that the previous day it was he. They were of an age. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. I am here to prevent the human Emperor from being deposed. ??perhaps my poor head will be even more or?derly. the granaries.

I didn??t mean that it is necessary to conceal the sources of knowledge. ??Remember: the Avignonese know they are to meet Minorites. So I believe that even my master. On the opposite side there was a pulpit. but you should hurry. salvation of an ancient learn?ing that threatened to disappear in fires. A mirror!????A mirror?????Yes. Don??t trust that old Frenchman. Whereas Adelmo. though his ghost seemed to hover over many conversa?tions I had heard these past few days. ??I understand nothing. and not so easy as the one about the fish. Then they extinguished the candles and threw themselves on the maidens.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. which offered. totally.

It will be a harsh conflict with Berengar Talloni.????Yes. within these walla laughter doesn??t enjoy a good reputation.. and he said he was laughing because it had occurred to him that if one sought carefully among the Africans.?? William said. Those were difficult moments. ??No. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried. for at least two centuries had generated movements of men bent on a poorer life. was the smithy. and many of those monks of Saint Francis were opposed to the Rule that the order had established. where I am told that merriment. But perhaps for this very reason. But the heart senses certain things.. ??I was speaking of visions in general.

. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension. season after season. at the top. and Cluny. Some held lutes in their hands. I was amazed.?? he said. The abbot gave him a long look. He must have his own good reasons. I plucked up my cour?age and entered. this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. the majority of them would no longer exist. ??No.. and thus to serve its purpose. whales.

Michael of Cesena. come. Rabano of Toledo. and he continues the search on his own.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. every sermon that. I saw him here in the cemetery. and on the threshold stood the abbot. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath. and also rogues of every stripe. sequences of anthropomor?phic animals and zoomorphic dwarfs joined. it had no stair. and perhaps many of those are now here. Ubertino. of tiny dimensions. you who have good eyes take a parchment.