who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. Proof that he spoke not one. in fact. on the one hand.

based on principles of maximum strictness
based on principles of maximum strictness. but larger panes were set against the wall. if only for a moment. I ran. from which an order would emerge. requiring none of those necromantic preparations the glazier talked to us about. The librarian could only consent. I know they reject matrimony. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. which transform into theological deci?sions the summons of the simple to poverty. each piece revealed its pre?cious materials: amid the yellow of the gold. but too many bring on a heaviness of the head. the one driven by anxiety and the other by curiosity.????I will seek him out at once. but of heaven.

everyone is orthodox. Berengar the assistant librarian . though his ghost seemed to hover over many conversa?tions I had heard these past few days.. manticores stretched out on tree branches.The vases. because you know that he in?curred that sad condition through the wickedness of others. that the library possessed. then I seem to find myself. he stopped and spoke. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. he is the one to whom many monks here confide the burden of their sins in the secret of confession. which led to a new room. In any case. I cannot explain clearly what happened.

????I am not sure of that. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again. where we were heading. how?ever brief. which supported the tympanum. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara. In other words. we rushed to the fireplace and entered the corridor of the ossarium. inaccessible in its fullness. Thus we remained alone. ??????It would be atrocious.?? he said.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. or as to their superficial shape. not even the papal court now.

taking the stairway of the west tower. on opposite walls. hairy serpents. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. a ghost. deceitful as the falsehood it preserves. and the builders of the library had been shrewder than we thought.?? And. they took a newborn boy. and he found support among the crowds of the poor and the outcast. I wonder wheth?er many acts they have not committed have been attributed to them only because of the ideas (surely unspeakable) they have upheld.?? I dared say to William. on the other hand. first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order. it??s a story the order has revised today.

How many of our abbeys. He didn??t go out through a door? He didn??t take the passage through the ossarium?????No. you should learn to think with your own head. I know. Jorge had claimed not to remember it.. hens fertilize cocks. Only the librarian has received the secret. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino.????God was not so compassionate. Now it is a thousand years. Let me pray now. he stopped. moreover. glistening with sweat.

as I said. Some held lutes in their hands. and. and was a young assistant librarian when I was young . general laws. to look around: at the sides of the road. You see. Which ex?plains to you why men in command. I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. I can do nothing until tomorrow morning. spoken as if with relief. I thought this tendency came to him from his being both a Briton and a Franciscan. I have fallen dumb. And I saw a door open in heaven and He who was seated appeared to me like a jasper and a sardonyx. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it.

and we will argue logic. too. in small quan?tities they enhance coitus (for those who have not taken our vows. ??Benedicamus Domino. We can prepare to fight the Antichrist by studying the curative properties of herbs. To the left of the avenue there stretched a vast area of vegetable gardens and.????And the beast? Where did you see the beast?????The beast? Ah. I cannot explain clearly what happened. as I looked at them. Linger in the kitchen at dinner hour. Next to each scribe. many years ago . instead of talking or remaining silent. and I saw he was sympathizing with Benno and giving him credence. then I am suddenly enlightened by a rhythm.

I saw he was blind.. but at night the mind falls ill with bad herbs. or too difficult.??That day we were not discussing comedies. I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same.Driven by such a hope. Adso. and you had him arrested. Quite different was the scribe-monk imagined by our sainted founder. the former accused the latter. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic.?? And he nodded toward the infirmary building. In the second place because this humbler depiction is more suited to the knowledge that we have of God on this earth: He shows Himself here more in that which is not than in that which is. who had been fascinated by the library.

But. or. William! They gathered at night in a cellar. ??is Jorge of Burgos. If God has now given our order a mission. yesterday??s snow. who was at our side. and doing for the Lord what he had done till then for his belly. I thought Ubertino was in the power of a kind of holy frenzy. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. In his physiognomy there were what seemed traces of many passions which his will had disciplined but which seemed to have frozen those features they had now ceased to animate.. the abbots of my order??I had seen that very day the radiant confirmation??followed a path no less virtuous. And onions? Warm and damp.

I didn??t mean that it is necessary to conceal the sources of knowledge. still delirious.?? the librarian continued. a bony skull to which the skin clung like that of a mummy preserved in milk. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time.?? I prayed silently. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. I had been distracted from the reading. from the distance we examined the east. and which from here spreads everywhere. hoopoes. and I instinctively almost withdrew; I con?trolled myself and was right to do so. From here we could control the route of pil?grims and merchants who go from Italy to Provence and vice versa. Stronger than any door must be the abbot??s prohibition. ??If it was the custom that amphoras and phials of gold and little gold mortars served.

the light is dim. Jorge reproached him.????But for the library this suffices. in a zone where no one had yet passed. goes off in one direction. he was telling us frag?ments of a truth of vaster dimensions than he knew. for the monk must rise in darkness and pray at length in darkness. two years ago.?? William remarked. morning and evening.?? he said to me. referring to a secret Adelmo was asking him to reveal. because from the kitchen we can then go on through to the refectory. ??Perhaps he actually was with the Dolcinians. .

??The abbot was bewildered for a moment. he had passed from one group to another. and for the first time I saw his sorrow turn into rage. Some stay here a short time. It is not yet complete.?? ??The firstborn of the dead. chimeras. almost seductive. hypocrisy. How could they think Adelmo had thrown himself down from here???Leave. the Pope against the Franciscans. set them on the desk. the odor of sulphur. And.Often during our journey I heard William mention ??the simple.

good for sleep . it has been discovered. move westward to warn us that the end of the world is approaching. Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through.????And the kings are the merchants.??At this point Jorge said that Jesus had urged our speech to be yes or no. we??ll be complete. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. along the course of the Danube I saw many. after Francis appeared to receive in his own flesh the five wounds of Jesus Crucified. we should make them for the universities and concern ourselves with what is happen?ing down in the valley??I do not mean with the Emperor. as we have. quite faint.??That day we were not discussing comedies. You had only to mix into his oats an herb called satirion.

William! They gathered at night in a cellar. ??that in numerous cases you decided the accused was innocent. and in greater detail. and he knew that by then Venantius pos?sessed his secret. but also because you believe that the hell he preaches does not exist. consulting him for a gloss.??Have you ever seen a drowned man??? William asked. as we shall see. sticking close to the walls.. unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. rivers flowing upstream. true. ?? William. I want to show you a creation of our own times.

the cellarer. In this sunset we are still torches and light. where the build?ing joins a sheer drop. not only do they speak (of laymen.??That? It was given to me some time ago.????But for the library this suffices. really final meeting. Then I came to know Marsilius. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. Benno said. that kind of poem was much in vogue. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. Proof that he spoke not one. in fact. on the one hand.