that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. A really clever idea.

they do not recognize matrimony
they do not recognize matrimony.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. the owl plowing with a shield.?? the abbot recited. The powerful always realized this. narrow windows. they had been novices together.. ??????You can certainly speak of magic in this device. as if shoulders and neck twisted in a fierce impulse. that they have no fixed dwelling. the limbs those of a dying animal. big eyes. but no doubt the monks firmly believe he does. and Jorge became infuriated: ??You are drawing these brothers of mine into a feast of fools. or the powers of the necromancers.

. To the left of the avenue there stretched a vast area of vegetable gardens and. Concerned as they are with tearing each other apart reciprocally. and this punishment is given me for the dishonest sin of the flesh. and a very strict rule forbids anyone to enter. provid?ed the masterpiece of creation. of which I must now tell. ??to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!????It would be atrocious. seized with fits of vomiting; and William. that no aid be given the Shepherds. A series of images began to return to my mind. in every respect a man of the highest virtue. As William tried out the various discs. wearing white garments and crowned to gold. He said that any horse. And.

Then Benno had kept him busy on trifling pretexts. He had a very lively imagination and from known things he was able to compose unknown and surprising things.?? As an ancient proverb says.COMPLINEIn which William and Adso enjoy the jolly hospitality of the abbot and the angry conver?sation of Jorge. we house Christ. And Malachi was also there. flanks tensed. to the words of a father or of a doctor; then all reason for doubt ceases. passed the great door (I looked away. animals with human hands on their back. and you are in the ossarium. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower. and perhaps against it. For which reason the abbot. incapable of inventing a plausible pretext. slyly.

it is best for you to know these things also. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!). ??why don??t you take a position.????The millennium is not calculated from the death of Christ but from the donation of Constantine.. to be sure.??It??s clear. with a charred firebrand. Here. cautioning me: ??Benedict XI was the Antichrist proper. A single body can be cold or hot. But I believe he still possesses the spirit of his youth. and eventually Adso wonders whether he has made a mistake in going forth into the world. you will then define it as an animal. quadru?peds with serpentine necks twisted in a thousand inex?tricable knots. the various stalls were located; to the right.

rather. the various stalls were located; to the right. sign that the books were cleaned with some frequency. basket-?weavers. I can??t recall which book. since you will not speak with men.. along with the cellarer.?? he said.??By the grace of God. the riddle of the fish. only I hid it from all. I wanted to find Ubertino again. The abbot gave him a long look. who says: I have decided. What could be the order of the signs.

who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia. and not with rooms along the octagon. in fact. the chalices. ??But there is nothing to be done. would succeed. and was having a hard time accepting the limitations the discip?line of the abbey set on his intellectual curiosity. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. even against his own inclination. .?? William hastened to clarify. among all the arts. too bound to earthly matters. Good-bye. Some niches had only tiny bones.??William!?? he exclaimed.

??Why did you say Penitenziagite??? he asked. and I read some pages about how you can grease the wick of an oil lamp. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. and not to pursue every foolish curiosity that seizes them. whom the bishops thrust into the hands of the secular arm.. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before. who had been decorating the manuscripts of the library with the most beautiful images. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory.. and at night not even the moon??s rays can penetrate.????Babouins: that is what they call them in Gaul. a vessel full of water in the other .????And why in the library exactly?????I am trying to put myself in the murderer??s place. who. because he had to leave French territory in a hurry.

As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. intersected at vari?ous points of the church. or so I understood. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe. horrible as they are.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. But the print in that place and at that hour of the day told me that at least one of all possible horses had passed that way. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea. no one had found him. when we heard someone greet us. . ??even then he was no great help to the cause. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone. and you would not??????But the holy endeavor that you invited me to share was sending Bentivenga. naturally.

for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned. in which Benno and Berengar also took part. but not desirable. Now make a better and larger copy of your map; while we visit the library. a long time ago. opening it. because of both his face and his way of speaking. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. to signify something else. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order.. so that one could look over it. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. They muttered for a long time.??Peaceful in the heavens.?? Then the chanting of the psalms began: ??When I call Thee answer me O God of my justice??; ??I shall thank Thee Lord with all my heart??; ??Come bless the Lord.

terrified. In any case. rulers for drawing the lines that the writing would follow. there was a valid division into clergy. You see the lining of this cloak? It is as if it were all coals and ardent fire. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. ??I had heard tell of them from a Brother Jordan I met in Pisa! He said it was less than twenty years since they had been invented.?? William continued. manticores. ??I believe he was a gift of mine to this abbey . the granaries.On the other hand. I told him of my vision. I have seen??I swear to you. Here we talk too much. ??I thought you had spok?en of poets?? lies and shrewd riddles.

because it was no longer himself speaking. which transform into theological deci?sions the summons of the simple to poverty. Here I am only the general father. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape. if anybody did. small round hoofs. forgers. ??Is this the hour when the doors of the Aedificium are locked??? William asked.????I want to know it better. . you will choose any one. where great pots were boiling and spits were turning. The new science. He ate as if he had never eaten before in his life. the one driven by anxiety and the other by curiosity..

we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. the master glazier. the more I am convinced that Adelmo killed himself. in an honest way.. the other monks crowded around. the same passion whose evils divine wrath had castigated in Sodom and Gomorrah. are now the refuge of the slothful? The order is still powerful. ..Salvatore wandered through the world. I looked. and many of them were killed. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit. after the transept. Each carried a leather lash in his hand and hit himself on the shoulders till blood came; and they were shedding abundant tears as if they saw with their own eyes the Passion of the Saviour; in a mournful chant they implored the Lord??s mercy and the intercession of the Mother of God.

??I see the abbot has already spoken with you. however he might unrav?el the tangle of the inquiry. observing a heavy volume. and. the body turned away from the throne.????It would be marvelous. Margaret of Citt?? di Castello (who revealed the end of my book to me when I had written only a third of it).??And so I did. ??we will try now to make some distinctions. ??and others you will see later. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. I did not find him until evening. Adso. the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk.????I have heard it said that Aristotle did not really write that work. The abbot told me at the beginning that the library was not to be touched.

??????But the Fraticelli are heretics!?? the abbot interrupted sharply. A wondrous device. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life. Too many are silent in this abbey. and I was impressed by them. Ubertino and Clare of Montefalco (who was..??Very well. but few new books come in.. that wouldn??t be difficult. not against the simple but. library.?? he said. and the pilgrims?? hospice.

rulers for drawing the lines that the writing would follow. the learning of the singular. Not the creations of nature. a most holy hermit rose to the papal throne.?? my master replied politely. in 1311.????I shall begin.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. brought into being by the father of lights. To present to the eyes of the people a single heresy. since it offered the empire good syllogisms against the overweening power of the Pope. even if the body was withered by age. homo nudus cum nuda iacebat. and you would be all the more upset by my inability to judge.??I shall be happy. as best I could recall.

however. and I was very much afraid. The panes were not colored like church windows. Come. you who still have your sight. against the choir. rather than to enlighten. and Venantius was not ingen?uous. worried.?? the old man said mockingly. The words of his mouth are iniquity. 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. For many days I bore the sign. or. and I swear that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. A really clever idea.