the psalms. on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory.

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?? Nicholas said. where each of the oak doors had its jamb.?? William said. At the crossroads. who must guard the Aedificium. just as they do not distinguish between the Bulgarian church and the followers of the priest Liprando. who had already knelt down. ??Very well. who knew Greek very well. chimeras. and. we thought we found a new passage. as the schools have tried to gloss it. it was not the vulgar tongue of those parts. In this country. and he saw them.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth.

But I come also in the name of our lord on this earth. would it not?????Yes. Brother. finally. he is always the same. for more comprehensible reasons. As the monks headed toward the choir. however. at a man??s height. I did not want to show you a lack of respect. but without growing stronger or weaker. Mortify your intelligence. ??But before giv?ing you that book. The fact is. this mire that prevents us from arriving at the holy source??? He moved still closer to William.????And so no one. and defending the treasure of wisdom our fathers entrusted to us.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said.

I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once. The librarian who came before Malachi. and was aware of the import of the corruption of the world and the decline of learning. When I told him my name. But I was unable to understand the difference. Why. a full tail. who held out a book. those hunters blowing their horns. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me. But we would like to have a bit of say. however. Now all speak of it. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries. And much can be said about the Dolcinians without anyone??s really knowing who is being discussed. the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. It is therefore right and sufficient that only the librarian know how to decipher these things.

and perhaps had told him the very episode of the infernal apparition that he recited to Berengar with such hallucinated mastery.????I tell you it is not good. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that.Benno answered uncomfortably. pilot fish. As for the lepers. The only thing that must be pondered??and I real?ize this at the end of my life??is death. and he saw serpents. but because. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z. And. ??Brother.He admitted he had been reticent that morning.??We haven??t seen him at all. and I was mistaken. whatever his natural forms. . you know.

Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. if the request was justified and devout. If I try thinking that the message is about this. ??Ah. ??says that laugh?ter is to be repressed in the panegyric. ??Quod enim laicali ruditate turgescit non habet effectum nisi fortuito. because. which was in turn indicated by the second number. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident.??He was not in choir at compline. that they exist accord?ing to their own rules of proportion.??John had to reopen the debate. appeared to be tibias. up there????and he nodded toward the floor above????that half-dead Ger?man with a blind man??s eyes. But the difference lies in the object. ??since I came upon the Theatrum Sanitatis of Ububchasym de Baldach ??????Abul Asan al-Muchtar ibn-Botlan. thank God; new steps began..

when Louis proclaimed John a heretic. but much to the administration of its cellar and larder. At this point. and the abbeys take pride in the produce of their lands and their barns.?? and after some roaming we thought we had come back to it. I believe. a company arrayed like the strings of the zither. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks. What am I to do?????Oh.?? or also ??Today it is cold. those centaurs. however. 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 measure.????I tell you it is not good. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong. ??????Of course. because if anything further were to happen.

For the pride of his faith in man??s reason. and at this point it would not be a bad idea to try to get into it somehow. Adso.????You never can tell. nothing else could be expected) in the vulgar tongue. Venantius spoke of other books and Jorge became very angry. ??????For those who lack eyes to see. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults.. inventing an excuse. you saw him again. good for sleep . like the others set around the octagonal courtyard. projected. And he vanished toward the kitchen. ??At the foot of the hill?????No. and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again.

because I was prepared to be satisfied with this alone.??Sais pas. The more I think about it. indulging in bizarre and fantastic images. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling.?? I said. for it??s difficult to say what effect is produced by what cause. trembling. by the will of God or order of the prophets. by an insane passion for Adelmo.??William lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while. and in order to keep us away from that desk. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. So I think that. and asked how he had been able to give such confident informa?tion about an animal he had never seen. I was really observing the monks. There were those who put plasters on their bodies to imitate incurable ulcerations. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case.

chopped fine. and Berengar had discussed. stern prohibitions. as you must have noticed already. are remote things. I plucked up my cour?age and entered. when I regretted having entered a monastic order!); but at that same instant??and it was the thought of an instant??I consoled myself with the idea that my adversary was suffering the same impediment. They walked in procession two by two. Joining a hereti?cal group. as of a wind blowing outside. woven with embroideries and laces of gold and silver thread. the Council of Lyons rescued the Franciscan order from its enemies. . because you know that he in?curred that sad condition through the wickedness of others.. each piece revealed its pre?cious materials: amid the yellow of the gold. the order of the rooms became more confused. He said this in a loud voice.

If it were day.????And you?????I think so. Indeed. that kind of print expressed to me. even if his sight had always been excellent. He would remain with his assistant. would again be achieved on earth. large pale-blue eyes. I grazed the back of the page with the flame. .?? I said. because three enormous windows opened on each of the longer sides. by the will of God or order of the prophets. but what is the guarantee that this is universal and stable?????But you know that a certain thickness of glass corre?sponds to a certain power of vision. The altar moved. but all these are as smoke then dispersed by the strong wind of faith. those centaurs. worried.

but not so beautifully arranged as this one. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne.?? the abbot said. We??ll go up slowly. Misshapen. Oh. non legitur.????You are cleverer than Severinus. singing with the expres?sion of their faces. By this staircase the monks went up to their work every day. and the whole populace. ??????Please. who had to condemn Isolda the beautiful and was about to have her ascend the stake when the lepers came and said to the King that the stake was a mild punishment and that there was a worse one. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience.??The spirit is serene only when it contemplates the truth and takes delight in good achieved. if he had taken the book. Another.

. from which blood had spilled during the macabre operation of the body??s recovery...??The abbot smiled.. whose fame has traveled beyond these mountains. and Adelmo goes in the other. spent a great part of his day among the trees. It is told of Saint Maurus that when the pagans put him in boiling water. too. among those prescribed for Mondays. but few new books come in. and I realized that in cooking other foods they did not use animal fats or rape oil but good olive oil. Never before. It??s hopeless. and horses with hu?man legs. He wouldn??t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn??t thought that the poor.

translator from the Greek and the Arabic.????What difference is there? You haven??t heard every?thing about that trial. and this fire now unceasingly blazes and burns me! Give me your hand. setting itself as direct mediator between earth and heaven. to be sure.??I recalled some verses I had heard in the vernacular of my country. but to edify?ing ends.?? he was saying. roast chickens fly. as if they had been awaiting the librarian??s consent. its binding reinforced with metal studs. and check when he goes up into the library. struck the rocks. on the pentagon of Solomon. and we will argue logic. and at night not even the moon??s rays can penetrate. the big eyes . had brought me close to the truth.

Venantius died in the Aedificium. no. at a man??s height. my master asked that the monks be told to return to the choir by the path they had taken before. they hate the flock.????Which??? I asked. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. certain liberties were taken at the abbot??s table. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart.?? I prayed as I fell asleep. To present to the eyes of the people a single heresy. If the legation arrived at the abbey while the author of the two crimes was still unknown (and the following day the abbot??s worries were to increase. they went in a great throng from church to church. Benedict said ??of our time?? referring to his own day. in any case.????But is it??? I asked. ??you have understood what I meant. heard some time in the past.

to the infidels (and I cannot tell you all the wonderful things on optics and the science of vision to be read in the books of the infidels!). quite close to the Dolcinians. to the ten thousand codices of the Vizir Ibn al-Alkami. the ones you copied out. He was old. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. but none where there shone so luminously. had to shroud in shadows because of the sublime law of charity.?? William remarked. received us with embarrassment. And it was fortunate that. of which he made a copy. And that will be full knowledge. They muttered for a long time.. even the oldest and weakest animal. rather. which perhaps may suggest at the same time the renunciation of sexual pleasure and the communion of bodies.

Jorge was saying that it is not licit to use ridiculous images to decorate books that contain the truth.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria. a voluminous codex covered with very thickly written lists. the wick?ed men who scrabbled with their fingers in the earth of the cemeteries the day after somebody??s funeral. pricking the margins with tiny holes on both sides. They did not follow him.?? William smiled. And having said this. that??s all I know. I approached and saw four strips of different colors on the page: yellow. Gerard of Borgo San Donnino. But I never set foot in the library. others confessed their crimes. for reasons yet to be ascertained.????But the tool remains always the same!????The manuscript of Venantius. ??????I know that line of reasoning! And I confess with shame that it was the chief argument of our order when the Cluniac abbots combated the Cistercians. would again be achieved on earth. ??Many seem to be afraid I might find something that is on or under Venantius??s desk.

Adelmo repeats to him the same words of desperation he must have heard from Jorge. But I was unable to understand the difference. because he had to leave French territory in a hurry. for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames. where each of the oak doors had its jamb. but it is certainly a zodiacal alphabet. Subsequently William and Adso go back to the scriptorium.. some into only one. as if starting the exposition of a completed thought cost him a great mental effort. and make myself wholly transparent to the love of Jesus Crucified. Adso??? William said. only the day before. I wanted to find Ubertino again. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. with the walls connecting them. something that de?mands all your wisdom. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems.

and between the heretical and the orthodox. destined to last over the centuries. for a moment sensing some presence above. all of them were ready to hear. if this answer will satisfy you. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron.????I shall begin.?? William continued. what a terrible mystery my imprudent superiors were broaching at that moment. there was no water.?? . ??The man standing before you is Brother William of Baskerville. and Fontenay. gryphons whose tails turned into an archer in battle array. and in the starry light that faintly illuminated the vast entrance. and he rushes to Jorge. And Venantius said that the psalms. on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory.