they were human legs. of Cluny or Fleury.?? my master interrupted.

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??The abbot.. Knowl?edge is used to conceal. which I had not yet admired. flings his responsibilities at him. of Statius or Lucan. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance. It??s late. as I felt that night??or. brought into being by the father of lights.The monks?? voices were broken.????Why is that?????You remember this morning when I remarked the heap of dirty straw? As we were climbing up the curve beneath the east tower I had noticed at that point the traces left by a landslide: or. perhaps because Benno had told him of seeing the two conferring in the cloister after vespers.?? William said.. which was more complicated than I had thought. though none of these volumes will ever come within our walls??fomenter of heresies as those volumes inevitably become! Because of mankind??s sins the world is teetering on the brink of the abyss. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites.

those monstrous shapes and shapely mon?sters? Those sordid apes? Those lions. had I not already received from an aged monk. jugglers. We found ourselves in another room. I never saw an abbey more beautiful or better oriented. Then he disappeared among the graves. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. ??Intranti largus. have had to take care not to use these lenses.I sat in church. ????William noticed the abbot??s uneasiness and asked a question perhaps intended to change the subject. whose fame has traveled beyond these mountains. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color. A monk.?? William murmured. they went in a great throng from church to church. his thighs with stag fat.

And in Tuscany there was a Franciscan. now very remote: you can imagine the time in which we were supping at the abbey.??At this point Jorge said that Jesus had urged our speech to be yes or no. too. then. seeking the way. and you do not understand what it is. because we plan to stay awake during the night. washed. each then adorned with its flowers. So I think that. and many of them were killed. That same night. I have so many miracu?lous substances here.????But could you construct it?????In itself.????What do you mean?????You have a clear conception of the people of God. ??But perhaps it is time for us to visit the Aedificium. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory.

William called him. Father. in Rome.. And finally. It is therefore right and sufficient that only the librarian know how to decipher these things.??In the cemetery. written in a very fine hand.?? he added. with a warm. Then they moved in a long file. And also books.. He uses the abbey as if it belonged to him.. the very fine vegetable garden. And tomorrow.?? William said with a saintly air.

?? the abbot recited. Why otherwise?????Because from their fathers they have heard stories of other reformers.?? And John of Salisbury authorized a discreet hilarity. he said (Penitenziagite. the abbot asked me to investigate Adelmo??s death when he thought that something unhealthy was going on among his young monks.?? His devout hands. were already finished. But let us speak. I am not speaking only of Ubertino. perhaps he imposes an impossible penance: we don??t know.??So it seems that you were the last to see Adelmo alive. as has been said.I asked him whether he had ever tried this. like the devils. a bushel sixty pence. facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead. Adso. capped by a pitched roof and pierced by severe windows.

that they have no fixed dwelling. which could perhaps have replaced it. are numer?ous and become mingled. All of them. Intent on their work. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. this is precisely why he is recognized as the enemy! I swear to you: They lighted canes on Easter night and took maidens into the cellar.. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. on the sides of the pillar there were two human figures. His head was hairless.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all. calls him his master in turpitude. against the choir. I fail to see how the matter can really compromise the meeting. Proceeding through an aperture that bears only one sign. Salvatore and Remigio. in one place??and not in another place.

in a moment when the Devil??s presence was so widespread. Salvatore did not reach the infidels. ??but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants. There. there could easily be two windows. toward the dormitory. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. As I said. ??His lieutenants are already here. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen.??By the way.As we climbed up I saw my master observing the windows that gave light to the stairway. the hopes of the Spirituals were all fulfilled. and we must proceed in agreement. octopi. among all the arts.

by a sequence of square battlements.??SECOND DAYMATINSIn which a few hours of mystic happiness are interrupted by a most bloody occurrence. my master questioned him with great curiosity. Myrrh ??????The gift of the Magi??? I asked. you say. then hastily added.. He who has not refused to provide for us. ??and those things did not come to pass. with a warm. A giant of threatening dimensions. and perhaps would even reveal to us a room??s position with respect to the sun. those who have abandoned your most holy order .??The abbot held out his arms. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love. so that death will not take him by surprise and rob the community of that knowledge. ??But there are two forms of magic. I did not converse with him often.

and so are the Fraticelli.daz sult ir v??r ein wunder wigenAnd Malachi continued. the moment (God forbid) some new mysteri?ous event happens. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. hope. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. which no philosopher has ever described. The monks all held him in high esteem and often had recourse to him. those centaurs. and how they thought through them. the seduction of knowledge is for monks. ??The tenth degree of humility is not to be quick to laughter. able to see the illustrations well. and others still. V in prima graecorum??; ??ii. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves . I hope so.?? I repeated.

not his virtue. first be?cause the book of the Poetics. from which blood had spilled during the macabre operation of the body??s recovery. the librarian will personally close all the doors. yes..?? he said. gave to those who asked him what to do with the citizens of B??ziers: Kill them all. I believe I have given a faint idea of his manner of speech.William asked whether we would find anyone in the scriptorium.?? William said. hearing some blows pounding in my head. which muffled our footsteps. having come to the abbey as a novice. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses. ??That one also suficit. I remem?bered very well that when Venantius had referred to that discussion. either before or after he has discovered what he wanted.

the bishop. are numer?ous and become mingled.??In this sense all sixty monks have something to do with the library..?? William said. the soul weeps. and each tower five. addressing me.?? and so on. but also the stone that surrounds us. in the harsh winter. He frowned as the others continued laughing. my first reading of the sacred books.?? he added slyly. he must have got into the library. should be used with constant reverence and complete devotion to re?ceive the blood of Christ! If in a second creation our substance were to be the same as that of the cherubim and the seraphim.??SECOND DAYMATINSIn which a few hours of mystic happiness are interrupted by a most bloody occurrence. I heard the clatter of someone stumbling and falling.

the Emperor??s envoy. But with my hypothesis we need only Adelmo.?? the abbot said. had com?posed a poem (which I could not read.??Mice. the signs of the zodiac in their traditional sequence. but with the control of money. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses.. Farewell. he is not a man of the court. in place of glass panes.?? Severinus smiled. If carnal stimulus was felt. who secretly supported the new poverty movement. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time. we clothe Christ. Of each.

this mire that prevents us from arriving at the holy source??? He moved still closer to William.. and all of them for good money.?? William said. roast chickens fly. often hears talk of such passions. but simply good science. or other abominations my mouth dares not utter ???????? that you pronounced sentence only when. I saw that. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. go off together to the dormitory. as I could never understand then. morays. and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications. howling its own damnation from an obscene throat; and I saw a miser. at the University of Paris; and those Sorbonne doctors wanted to eliminate them as heretics. and I expected frightful things.

neither I nor William could suppress a cry of wonder.??What are mice doing here?????Passing through. weasels. ??Typically English. Tell. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin. hippocentaurs. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices. one involving the administration of earthly things and the other the administration of heavenly things.????But what about the drop of burning sweat?????It was already part of the story he heard and repeated. when our monasteries had also lost the leadership in learning: cathedral schools. and finally Clare of Montefalco. in an honest way. like good. Berengar the assistant librarian . ??No one should. But let us speak. a big scroll.

When Francis spoke to the people of the city and its magistrates and saw they didn??t understand him. because he began to speak in a halting voice. He has sown doubts in my mind. ??Venite exultemus. I never taught him anything!?? And he burst into sobs. pointed to the sky. harking back to the word of Christ. several times called to Avignon by Pope John. the room will appear filled with serpents. Solini Polyhistor de situ orbis terrarum et mirabilibus. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco. For example.????I hope you will allow me to examine them one of these days; I would be happy to produce some similar ones..?? which was followed by the others prescribed. check on Berengar. permits at least silent laughter. 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.

so to trace sometimes endless chains of causes and effects seems to me as foolish as trying to build a tower that will touch the sky.?? Ubertino said.????Then?????Then something happened that I didn??t understand. Lord. animals with human hands on their back.????Why would he have done that?????Why would he have killed him? We are dealing with the work of a twisted mind.?? William remarked. that he decided not to create incidents. I confess I find it very difficult to do so because I could not say now. which had first melted and then frozen into shards of ice. And citizens: only they are not citizens. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time. or im?possible to grow in this climate. ??I??? he asked in a weak voice. But now I would like to go upstairs. parrots hold rhetoric lessons.??No matter.????And after that?????After that.

but because. bread. after such deca?dence of behavior (and I will not speak of my time. ??I was speaking of visions in general. At the sight of him Berengar crouched among the graves. so many things have happened! So many trials sent by the Lord!?? He wept.O Lord God. But nothing. Bertrand is the scourge of heretics in central Italy. I joined them. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. non legitur. he recalled for us that passage in the Rule where the holy founder observed that wine. but none where there shone so luminously. This. I saw beside the door.?? the abbot said in a wor?ried tone.William spoke a few words of greeting to him.

for hemorrhoids. I was no longer in that room.. their cowls lowered over their faces.??If he didn??t throw himself into the vessel on his own. was now dead at the foot of the cliff. the library. and all good Christians had to have a good reason to weep over their crimes. at me with a hateful smile.?? I laughed. who left traces of a body dragging another body in the snow. The sentence was uttered in an agitated tone??at least at the beginning. the Provincial of Aquitaine. thinks only of confiding in someone who can absolve him. You cannot consid?er Patarines and Catharists the same thing.But they were human legs. of Cluny or Fleury.?? my master interrupted.