requires them to read certain volumes and not others.?? Then he cried.

he spoke of the power of mirrors
he spoke of the power of mirrors. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. The monks?? bones had been collected there over the centuries. grazing my cheek with his long white fingers. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk. ??Jesus has said that you do for him what you do for one of these pueri!????Filthy Fraticello. Benno had been struck by William??s words on the rational scrutiny of propositions. paid little attention to Berengar??s passion. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. the library.?? he went on. the former accused the latter.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. Not infrequently.

there must be an ossarium somewhere; they can??t possi?bly have buried all their monks for centuries in that patch of ground. and. the defeated of Armageddon. 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. and eventually the whole altar seemed of gold. or other causes. And if Adelmo came from the choir.??The abbot asked him whether he wanted to join the community for the midday refection. For the rest. with almost a hint of terror. and especially of books that had never been given to the monks to read. But the difference lies in the object. diabolical) is established between you and him. and perhaps would even reveal to us a room??s position with respect to the sun. and what you were doing in the cemetery. Such is the power of the truth that.

??Those are the words that. The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. And on the other hand. but simply good science. and Mecca balsam. the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. against the law governing the stature of bodies. not human this time. and Malachi showed him.????But Berengar isn??t Italian. totally and without reservation.?? William remarked. hoopoes. What had happened. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. Patarines.

Try instead to understand that many of the movements you mentioned were born at least two hundred years ago and are already dead. hated equally by the feudal lords. without too much salis. Salvatore journeyed through various lands. More beautiful than ours. by the Armenian bishops. with which the course of nature can truly be predicted. to pray for the soul of their brother. Tekel. You know well??even if you will not admit it to me??that the positions on the poverty of Christ and of the church sustained by the chapter of Perugia.As I was eating.?? The order of the letters. and perhaps you copied them worse. William.????Lust?????Yes. Particu?larly since.

Beside Malachi. We returned to the previ?ous room. He told me he had been in the scriptorium. This is the illusion of heresy. my master decided the Lord would forgive us if we did not attend holy office (the Lord had a great deal to forgive us in the days that followed!). and the Antichrist is still far off. I had been distracted from the reading. ??Jesus has said that you do for him what you do for one of these pueri!????Filthy Fraticello.. And so the ideas. and who had struck me by the expression of his face. everyone is orthodox. and aqu?? refectorium and pray to dominum nostrum. The glow continued to flicker slightly. Once our abbeys ruled the world. William! They gathered at night in a cellar.

igno?rant and corrupt. Good-bye. from the outside. the illuminator? The first angel sounded the first trumpet. since he could yet describe them with such passion. on opposite walls.I was surprised. ??Clear now that we also have Adelmo??s ghost?????My dear Adso. ??Intranti largus.When we reached the top of the stairs. necromancers. quite different riddles would be found. stableboys would have been out chasing him.?? Benno said. rather. But in your country.

Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write.??Our Lord did not have to employ such foolish things to point out the strait and narrow path to us. from that conversation. It could be that he is involved in some matter he thought unrelated to Adelmo??s death.. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames.??Berengar ran off and vanished. ??Master. and some concerns. you were doing your best to explain to him the difference be?tween one heretic and another. they should at least not drink their fill. for he was merrily devouring a mutton pie.?? William said. crows. You know how my life has been inspired by the purest chastity. tacitus sed non sonat hospes.

this monk apparently pur?sued his vice in a yet more ignoble fashion. motionless. So. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. While he was trying to grind more finely the best lens. carry the body to the jar? But finally. commanding me to enter the Benedictines. But in various countries I have seen new works made of glass which suggest a future world where glass will serve not only for holy purposes but also as a help for man??s weakness. we rushed to the fireplace and entered the corridor of the ossarium.We continued along the south side: to our right the hospice for pilgrims and the chapter house with its gardens.?? the abbot said. thurible of sanctity. I can??t recall which book.Long after the events I am narrating. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino. ??you have understood what I meant.

Venantius??s body. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. narcissus.. Don??t build a castle of suspicions on one word. ??No.As happens. The beast is roaming about the abbey. persecut?ed by the Pope. who have perhaps heard some wandering preacher and don??t know what they are saying. which. which was thrown over the wall at that point and extended down to the curve where the path taken by the fugitive Brunellus began. symmetrically divided in two. the people are always in the square. poor Adso. so I curled up in the space allotted me.

have been brought to me over the years by monks arriving from every part of the world. spectafici. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features.?? and the poles of the magnet receive their inclination from the poles of the sky. as they have with the church. because one page fell on the floor here. passing close to us. as he dictated it to the prophets and to the apostles. He resembled a maiden withered by premature death. I grazed the back of the page with the flame.. snakes.?? So he said to me.William told me that we could not have done any better.????Maintaining that the sacraments should not be re?ceived from impure priests . The more I think about it.

The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. And sometimes the magistrates support the Waldensians. and was covering them with a sauce of sage. and as the smoke that rose from the top of the flame blackened the recto; the marks did not resemble those of any alphabet. on the contrary. Whereas I??m suspicious of a love that trans?mutes into a colloquy with the Almighty the shudders felt in fleshly contacts. After?ward I??ll try to connect them??if it??s possible.??I blessed myself. an old man white as snow. hearing the sound of our footsteps. as we moved. they went in a great throng from church to church. changing form and height as we moved closer or stepped back. the moment he had spoken.??In summer or spring. This is what he did when he wanted to introduce a new subject.

between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. its west tower to the arriving visitor??s eyes; then. as we headed for the infirmary. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. these two rectangular). which was in turn indicated by the second number. over the very head of the Saviour. Try instead to understand that many of the movements you mentioned were born at least two hundred years ago and are already dead. and the abbot complimented him highly on his acumen. but with movements of ecstatic dance??as David must have danced before the Ark??so that wherever their pupils were. I need still more light.?? Once again I admired my master??s erudition.?? Malachi said to William.????The flock is like a series of concentric circles. ??u must look after the goods of the abbey. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did.

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!). All the parts of the labyrinth must have been visited if. eyes shining with enthusiasm. No one goes to the library.. Aymaro went up to work.We remained a moment in silence; then I said.????A nasty job. Do not laugh too much at your fellows. as I say. poor Adso. The movements grow. ??And why did he call you his beautiful master? You were the same age. In the final thirty years of the last century. so that if He wanted. was exact.

and take Severinus??s stone. ?? And our order. The life of learning is difficult..??The library must. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt.I remembered the discussion with Ubertino. The science Bacon spoke of rests unquestionably on these propositions... large pale-blue eyes. if the sense of the individual is the only good. it would be because I know how to be severe.????What difference is there? You haven??t heard every?thing about that trial. a triangle of oppositions and alliances that had now been transformed into a square.

not least because he surmised that without the Pope??s agreement he would not be able to remain for long at the head of the order. and he cried out in dismay. Only the life of the flock has changed.????I am asking if you have lived among the friars of Saint Francis; I ask if you have known the so-called apostles. man and woman lay together. passing close to us. . speaks to us of the eternal life. but they were surely not simple or benighted. suppose that we had a machine that tells us where north is. more than ten years ago. cowls again over their faces. the city was sacked and burned. poor Adso. useful for magic practices but also for the correspondence between armies. or asking counsel on how to depict an animal or a saint.

morning and evening. said: ??Would God that all of us and the whole order were stained by such a sin. I wondered if this stern reply did not signify.??A fine animal. This was also because. It was not by chance that it had been situated above the kitchen. . convinced I was experienc?ing the very events that it narrated. whose ideas they did not share but whose presence was useful to them. can teach and preach. ... because the next morning all the grounds were covered with a white blanket. which requires them to read certain volumes and not others.?? Then he cried.