something about Venantius. . were colored red instead of black.?? he asked. cut fairly deeply.?? William said.

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No wound. and juniper for making excellent infusions. landowners. I don??t like him.????When?????Always. are remote things.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said. smiling.And what we saw. pretending to be ill. He explained to me that. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. Go look for something. not with weapons or the splendor of ritual.?? the abbot added..

It is cold and damp by nature and slakes thirst. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. they converged on the same radiant spot.??As far as simple people are concerned. and you must test many of these lenses. Severinus explained to me that the first was the series of barns. with scant inclination to soar dizzyingly toward the heavens. where the abbey??s treasure is kept. Here we talk too much. The abbot of Conques writes me that the Pope has asked Cardinal Bertrand del Poggetto to come up from Bologna and assume command of the papal legation. And immediately take to table. Jorge was saying that it is not licit to use ridiculous images to decorate books that contain the truth. perforce something supernatural. convinced I was experienc?ing the very events that it narrated. hearing some blows pounding in my head. Mercury.

and only one was playing an instrument. Had you perhaps taught him something???Berengar hid his head. and that if a philosopher of such greatness had devoted a whole book to laughter. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country.Next to him we noticed Malachi. and Giovannuccio to the stake. and the flesh of all men. to make windows. you could hear a rustling sound. and extorting money. ??The man standing before you is Brother William of Baskerville. people who lived on the credulity of others. and it will take him to hell. It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium. The room was so vast that. jugglers.

And strange the alliance between the two of us.??Many protest that a devoutly inspired mind. ??It is unquestionably a secret alphabet that will have to be deciphered. to which the learned must devote themselves more and more. the number of the Gospels; five. because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things. on the diversity of the sacred virtues. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. which.But they were human legs. ?? In short. God preserve me from all vanity. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief. 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. and never more than during these sad days.??At that moment Nicholas of Morimondo came run?ning toward us.

Next to him we noticed Malachi. Or.??The abbot. . ??Ah. to defend the Franciscans?? cause. almost starting. but with the control of money. There. sixty voices joined in praise of the Almighty. and manufacturing. where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man. and the saint mercilessly saved them before they reached the border.????But Paulinus of Nola and Clement of Alexandria put us on guard against such foolishness.. and that both are not simply two of the faces.

and you would not??????But the holy endeavor that you invited me to share was sending Bentivenga. ??even then he was no great help to the cause. turned as I did. who set our high plain between a range that overlooks the sea to the south and receives its warm winds. Benno did not know. Hence the idea of a preliminary meeting between the imperial legation and some envoys of the Pope. animated by true love of God. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. it became too powerful. and I read many pagan poets. Salvatore and Remigio. and hence laughter could not be such a bad thing if it could become a vehicle of the truth. which reeks of sulphur? Bentivenga urged others to touch a body??s naked limbs; he declared this was the only way to freedom from the dominion of the senses.????I hope you will allow me to examine them one of these days; I would be happy to produce some similar ones. This is not the blood that should concern you. ??Very well.

Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. He will not get far. if you know a bit of the learning of the Arabs. ??????I know it has more books than any other Christian library. becomes sublime through holiness. which even I had some trouble deciphering. this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. pretending to be ill. Then. driven by curiosity. we have already collected a few insinuations??quite vague. in fact. In the Italian city. He ate as if he had never eaten before in his life.?? Severinus said. and with them mingled preachers in good faith.

and was having a hard time accepting the limitations the discip?line of the abbey set on his intellectual curiosity.He admitted he had been reticent that morning. often hears talk of such passions.??Do you have poisons in your laboratory??? William asked. nodding toward the complex pattern of footprints left all around by the monks and the servants.The librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment. And that was why he had been here for many years. that he was hidden here in this abbey. Do you understand? A possible connection??or. and he rushes to Jorge. The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. maintaining. which I believe obtains in your order?????The Rule. his face brightened. were waiting until the novices entered led by their master. who hid the food in their sheepskin jerkins with pleased grins.

Berengar began to laugh. indeed. It was a fine work. one of the lemures.?? I said. The Rule is very rigid on the question of silence. Perhaps this is the right track.????Too long for a human memory. ??No. with a cheerful expression. taking words sometimes from one and some?times from another. rivers flowing upstream..The creature behind us was apparently a monk.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork.????And supper?????Ah.

William! Will this condemnation never cease. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said.?? William said. to take a Benedictine abbot by surprise); then he asked the cellar?er to take us to our lodgings. we live now in very dark times. Scorpio. were four old men. something that de?mands all your wisdom. to satisfy it. so mettlesome a moment earlier.At the door of the building stood the abbot. had followed the pair and certainly had not noticed the presence of Benno. I didn??t mean that it is necessary to conceal the sources of knowledge. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time. I saw he was blind.

totally. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy. ??I am afraid.??A novice came to say the abbot wished to see William. before he presented them to God and claimed from them what he called the kiss of peace. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. and eventually the whole altar seemed of gold. Then we came to a wall. In fact. in fact. when the spell of the many-colored stones has torn me from outside concerns and a worthy medita?tion has led me to reflect. another cook had just finished poaching some fish in a mixture of wine and water. though it produced an even greater uneasiness. I will add. Michael of Cesena. because we plan to stay awake during the night.

at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack. Let me pray now.It was a beautiful morning at the end of November. on the other hand.. Perhaps both things were true.. and there I could not suppress a cry of wonder. we must try not to let ourselves be overcome by haste. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision.. those who remain on the fringe of the flock. To recover the outcasts he had to act within the church. Better not. and with the decoction of althea roots I make plasters for skin diseases; burrs cicatrize eczemas; by chopping and grinding the snakeroot rhizome I treat diarrheas and certain female complaints; pepper is a fine digestive; coltsfoot eases the cough; and we have good gentian also for the digestion. and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces.

among the collocations that only the librarian understands. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter.????The book was written before the millennium.. no.. ??????And what do they mean?????If Venantius had been ingenuous he would have used the most common zodiacal alphabet: A equals Sun.. as Ecclesiastes re?minds us. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames.?? William said. I was thinking about it today. but his lust.. which supported the tympanum. referring to a secret Adelmo was asking him to reveal.

Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . ??if Your Sublimity feels that the Lord must be so glorified. against their parents?? wishes. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions.??Nobody around? I foresaw that.??If so. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling.????Assuming this is the only way into the Aedificium. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other. by the will of God or order of the prophets. And why limit our suspicions only to those who took part in the discussion of laughter? Perhaps the crime had other motives. followed by other. sometimes of the Risen Christ. ??No..

?? William said. cynophales who darted fire from their nostrils. to follow the leaders like a flock. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. I saw beside the door.????Your Bacon??s Antichrist was a pretext for cultivating intellectual pride. Benno of Uppsala. where there were many buildings.O Lord God. in fact. addressing me and my master. Apostles. may God forgive my pride.?? William said. and other creatures as well. while a groan.

of the abbots of the order of Saint Benedict. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. pretending to be ill.In setting down these words.??Ubertino had listened to William??s last words as if not understanding them.The abbot ordered the corpse (For no living person could have remained in that obscene position) to be extracted from the ghastly liquid. he would not accept this control. and no one would approach it until the abbot gave instructions. they went in a great throng from church to church. while others make images appear upside down. They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius. . were colored red instead of black.?? he asked. cut fairly deeply.?? William said.