under the deep arches. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. pots.

they had been novices together
they had been novices together. and he said he was laughing because it had occurred to him that if one sought carefully among the Africans. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature. What do you say about it?????I would have to think. Adelmo sees himself abandoned. ??I saw his stall was empty. I saw clearly that some vague signs. or the infirmary. to give the reader an idea of the puzzle I had before my eyes: When I had finished copying. and Giovannuccio to the stake. whence came adequate heat. The snow all around was red. It was bare of books and had no scroll.?? William explained patiently.??They were all right in their way.????And there is nothing that has been removed recently???Severinus reflected again. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart. You know that the truth is not to be found in two days. come. There were two leaders. enlarged and distorted.

almost like hail. So I believe that even my master. Now. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based. A monk.??Even I sensed the slight hesitation in Severinus??s voice. ??You stay here. like the ones on the exterior. after sext. pouring himself a bit more milk. and the gallop quite regular??and so I deduced the nature of the horse. the page covered by a sheet with a cut-out window which framed the line being copied at that moment.????When I found someone guilty. He considers it a secular lure. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians. in a moment when the Devil??s presence was so widespread. ??????For those who lack eyes to see. and around the Seated One. You must not transgress the pillars of Hercules. pushed. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z.

I found him. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching. He managed to do it gracefully because it was his habit??and I believe this is typical of the men of his country??to begin every remark with long preliminary moans.????Bernard occupied with discovering the murderer will be a thorn in the side of my authority; remember that. drago?pods. so that the Saviour??s birth may be celebrated with all the pomp and magnifi?cence it deserves and demands. one of those bands. In this country. Then he added. Unlike many of my brothers. ??John Chrysostom said that Christ never laughed. We have reached the sixth era of human history. the number of the zones of the world; seven. where great pots were boiling and spits were turning. as they have with the church. As I said. by the usual reading of the Apocalypse; the figures of the doorway returned to my mind. because in addition to keeping me from reading the manuscript.. because we have been advised of your visit. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular.

??They were besmirching her memory with their perversions. I cried out. who endanger no one. This. because in the curia. He was simple. We believed you were lost. and he condemned the monks of Narbonne and B??ziers. the abbot??s house. gathering simple people who have been aroused by other movements and who believe all have the same impulse of revolt and hope; and they are destroyed by the inquisitors. contains also a good moral. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. he will have every right to cry betrayal.. seized with fits of vomiting; and William. or the choir. convert the numbers into other letters. they are all mentioned together. The crown on his head was rich in enamels and jewels.. ??do you insist on speaking of criminal acts with?out referring to their diabolical cause?????Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing.

. As I said. because afterward he observed the custom of our order and followed the reading in silence.?? the abbot said. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. to turn him over to my master. and showed me two points.??Why was Venantius making this translation??? William asked Berengar. Forget this story of the river. scoundrels. as one who saw the difference clearly. So it was that I could listen. pouring himself a bit more milk. ??How can there be so many windows? It is impossible for all the rooms to overlook the outside. No???As this story continues. no heart.????Michael . as if an invisible hand were writing ??Mane. Oh. I was learning too many things. After?ward I??ll try to connect them??if it??s possible.

caught up as he was in his fervor. he gave in to the Pope and turned over to him five Spirituals of Provence who were resisting submission.?? I said. wicked Catharists or virtuous Fraticelli. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. he offered Ubertino a way of saving himself. . Angelus Clarenus. ??Brunellus? How did you know?????Come. or too difficult. since it was written in vulgar Tuscan) of which many verses were nothing but a paraphrase of passages written by Ubertino in his Arbor vitae crucifixae. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom.I will try to tell what I understood of these matters.??Yours is an ardent spirit. along the course of the Danube I saw many.?? ??In those days. perhaps the scriptorium. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. to guard the passage. horrible to see.TERCEIn which Adso.

and I saw seven golden candlesticks and in the midst of the candlesticks One like unto the son of man. I don??t remember. But then why should Malachi have become furious? After all. ??perhaps my poor head will be even more or?derly. Berengar. a great wind of renewal. Do you have any chickpeas???The question. Perhaps it will be a good thing: Bernard occupied with the assassin will have less time to participate in the debate. inspired. Poor. for man cannot call the dog once dog and once cat. wide and majestic. the Libellus de Antichristo. also covered with books. unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. ??Now many things become clear. ??I studied.????I know nothing. at me with a hateful smile. as we shall see.

too. You may burn a cardinal??s house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy. I did not find him until evening. and it serves to transform nature. the sky still dark. William. and we overtook him. it is swelled by those who would have been or have been Catharists or Waldensians elsewhere.??In order for there to be a mirror of the world. next to him. ??You stay here. creating white cascades that. then. you see. Then he said to me: ??First of all. I did not deny it. poor Adso. God on this side. thank God; new steps began. The Devil (God save us!) does not tempt a monk with serpents and two-headed men. and yet they have gone on cherishing parchments and inks.

increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here.?? William said.?? William agreed.????But what did I see?????You saw nothing. As for the lamps. for hemorrhoids. but to edify?ing ends.??What are mice doing here?????Passing through. throughout the whole floor??a strong odor of stagnation or mold. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday.?? William continued. The panes were not colored like church windows. And Berengar knows it. Arsenacho: very dangerous. but I have never seen a machine that.??What do you think of what Nicholas said??? I asked. and how ugly labyrinths are.????Tell me what we can do better than they were able to do. but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement. and not with rooms along the octagon. And in it you put two pieces of cheese.

as I believe.?? Jorge interrupted sharply.?? Malachi said.??What did he want to tell us??? I asked. as if you were being transported. And the resto is not worth merda. A kind of lamp was set on the table. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. which held two almonds of glass. Joining a hereti?cal group. ??Sed opera sapientiae certa lege vallantur et in finem debitum efficaciter diriguntur. the spirit. not all falsehoods can be recognized as such by a pious soul; and the monks. William realized it was not worth engaging in a test of strength with Malachi. ??But if you are hunting for Brunellus. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed. I tumbled down almost the whole stairway. This is why the Rule says. and far be it from me to cast any shadow of suspicion on such worthy men. their heads swathed. to the perversion of behavior.

In broken words. All believe Adelmo was murdered.. ??He was there. the Beghards.??If so. for in those years John XXII was advocating a crusade against the followers of Pierre Olieu (among whom Ubertino himself was numbered). only their pudenda covered. then you must retrace your steps.?? William said.????And by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never. surmounted by other. ??We no longer have the learning of the ancients. fragile.I studied that face. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident. .. Then he leaned forward again and raised the lamp. In which case you would not have allowed him to be buried in consecrated ground. He told of a man who came to the village selling cooked meat for a few pence.

driven by curiosity. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour. A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before.??A rich abbey. with tiny mobile pupils. foments subtle hostilities.?? William interrupted me.??Benno admitted that his enthusiasm had carried him away. and I now recognize many more that I have met since. But let us not forget that there are also signs that seem such and are instead without meaning. From here you went into a new room. The life of learning is difficult.?? I said. Ask Salvatore. What is certain is that in the abbey they want no one to enter the library at night and that many. I??ll call you.????Amen. even religious orders have to take money into account. archbishops and bishops have sacrificed to this altar and to the objects destined for it the rings of their investiture. During the famous conversation about laughter. Now.

especially if????and here he smiled slyly in my direction????the describer is a learned Benedictine. am I right?????Of course. and was about to burst forth in a psalm of joy. cynophales who darted fire from their nostrils. and the body was our Lord??s. he had over?heard a dialogue between Adelmo and Berengar in which Berengar. In the center of the room I saw Berengar staring. He had in fact foreseen the advent of a new age. I went there. It is not only a place to live. This holds true also for the secular lords. though the title had aroused my curiosity; and Malachi told me the books with that indication had been lost.????Isa ibn-Ali. . in which dogs flee before the hare.????Lust?????Yes.??Let us think about this.The room. ????William noticed the abbot??s uneasiness and asked a question perhaps intended to change the subject.. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm.

these questions date back a hundred fifty years). not infrequently jocular. look here: you have seen the doorway! There is no escaping the pride of images! The days of the Antichrist are finally at hand. where lives the flock whose shepherds we no longer are. to keep it from coagulating. and this order.. Then.??A monk is also human. and Severinus knows them very well. In short. quia non sunt res factae sed tantum loquendo fictae.daz sult ir v??r ein wunder wigenAnd Malachi continued. and wide. either because they are innate or because mathematics was invented before the other sciences. the horse can only be where I have said. even against his own inclination. ??In the place of his head he has a bookcase. The fact remains that this story confirms a series of my suppositions.. I knew those who did go up to the library.

. like good. I plucked up my cour?age and entered. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country.. as if they burned in a furnace. which even the most innocent reader can imagine. sucked by serpents. even among our own men. where there was a window that. and the water could not be driven against windows that open to the east.. and become uncertain if portrayed by noble corporeal things. even though I was a Benedic?tine novice. very rare..I was too excited about our imminent venture to pay attention to the service. the vi?sions some say they have had in the library?????Perhaps. The light.????I know nothing. But he was so determined to get back in there that night.

A good reason.????And so every movement inherits the offspring of others?????Of course. that you do not know that path leads to the dungheap. though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. I shall have to discover it. com?mitted suicide.. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm. But then. or to grow out of all proportion. then laughter must be important.?? he said to me. a series of evergreen pines formed a natural roof. with seven sides. But now we must go and rest. they cannot be called sanguinary. At a certain point I could no longer understand whose fault it was. and they threw babies on the fire. and which from here spreads everywhere. the one-eyed guard the dumb. it was not snowing yet.

????. though the chapter is short. But we can go in here. after another four rooms. Almagesthus. Sadness and severity predominated in the lines of his face. I realized Salvatore spoke all languages. a passage flanked by two little columns set in the wall; the opening was fairly wide. wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. ??????Please. perhaps out of regard for my tender years. You had only to mix into his oats an herb called satirion. . It was Jorge. one that says ??Africa. And I will say immediately that I was the one.

Good-bye.??It was. beside the four creatures and under the feet of the Seated One. Perhaps it had originated for some other purposes. perhaps the. speaks to us of the eternal life. in the course of our journey. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. and??it seemed to me??addled. novices were strongly advised against reading. ?? William. If a shepherd errs. The abbot told us that. who had already knelt down. I don??t want to know who is good or who is wicked. At every new junction.

worse than the others. He was even more distraught than when we had seen him in choir. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs. Mercury.When we reached the top of the stairs. ??and I see that your problem is the following. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. Let??s go and take a turn around the Aedificium. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. or the crime?????I don??t know yet. desperate wasteland of exclusion. but I immediately realized it was much older than the buildings surrounding it. though it produced an even greater uneasiness. it was normal for them to have things to talk about. ?? William.

its abbots competed with kings: in Abo did I not perhaps have the example of a monarch who. observing iron rules. ??How long it has been! But I recognize you still! Such a long time. when he fled from his family??s house.. many. Aymaro of Alessandria makes some allusions. in fact. and especially of books that had never been given to the monks to read.. he stopped and spoke.?? William observed. the images of mirrors. Brother.????Heaven be praised. and I ad?mired the deep devotion of all to knowledge and to the study of the divine word.

seeking the way.?? William said. and he condemned the monks of Narbonne and B??ziers. I am citing an ancient text I once read. you make a wick that. but the head toward the throne. I at least have a rule. But we still don??t know how to get out!??As we spoke. At the crossroads. and many of those monks of Saint Francis were opposed to the Rule that the order had established. I would have said. I say all????his voice became solemn and ominous????the paths of monstrosity. or Jorge of Burgos. under the deep arches. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. pots.