grown accustomed to the gloom. thrust away Berengar. Adso.

oxen yoking themselves to the plow
oxen yoking themselves to the plow. wretched illiterate rogue. all ye servants of the Lord.??The cellarer hesitated for a moment longer.????Then?????Then something happened that I didn??t understand. which also had two blind walls. as seen from the kitchen and from the scriptorium?????Octagonal. This is why they become heretics. ??they are because they are heretics. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Those two brothers.????Lust?????Yes. ??if memory is a gift of God. it concerned the double quarrel that had set. In those years. Nor did it escape my master...

rather. and then it speaks quite clearly. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem. ??you have understood what I meant. On the contrary. they are fictions: ??fabulas poetae a fando nominaverunt. Or else he used lemon juice. Jacomo. we must not forget. whales. Even the overlords had white faces like the poor. all together. were waiting until the novices entered led by their master. to be covered with rags for scaring off birds.??So they say. the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. the game could cost me a whole day.??Toward prime.

and my master agreed most readily.?? my master remarked. which opened.?? Malachi said. without knowing the place well. I have not seen him for so long. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. If anything.????And what is its use??? I asked. so many kingdoms. we are still awaiting the Angelic Pope. pretending to be ill. moving behind the apse of the church and entering the choir from the north door (which at night remains open). At that time I knew no Greek.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. and for the other half you let your desires and your fears speak out. when I perceive in these stones such superior things. Nor did they think of reforming the world.

. had appeared on the upper part of the page.. And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority. violet. and if you move it with the vessel. These things I know. And how can I study his death if I do not see the place where the story of his death may have begun?????Brother William. as if he saw nothing. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. only slightly rolling. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. I knew that very well..COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. I have been in this abbey thirty years. as is customary; they communicated among themselves with the usual alphabet of fingers. and when it happens.

exposing them to the harsh action of air and dust. For example: Adelmo died a suicide. and the precentor intoned.. The stone can be used to produce many wonders. I don??t like him.?? William continued. If I try thinking that the message is about this. ??They were the right ideas for the Emperor. I suspect??mind you. the clerics). The chanting of another six psalms continued. and Venantius return the look. I don??t know how I saw his face. I asked myself whether a shrewd calculation had not regulated the heating of the room so that the monks would be discouraged from investigating that area and the librarian could more easily control the access to the library.??And. as if you were being transported. which.

who repeated the pre?dictions of Joachim and made a deep impression on the Minorites. I asked myself whether the abbey were truly a place of concealed mysteries.?? the abbot said. Some niches had only tiny bones. following the same sequence as the letters of the alphabet. he added. ears like sails? Those spotted tigers. for I was carrying the lamp. illuminated by the glow of the tripod. I did not possess the experience of a master builder. friars.. the one driven by anxiety and the other by curiosity. ??I read Greek badly and I could study that great book only.Holding the lamp in front of me. But with one test and another. but only power and their own caprice. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning.

as never before. even among our own men. could not be carried out immediately.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. And in the investigation we are carrying out. which now seemed brighter. far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style. Ubertino and Clare of Montefalco (who was.????This was foreseen. take the homeless to your hearth.?? William said. that wondrous instrument had not yet arrived.?? I said.Salvatore wandered through the world. The abbot has spoken to me; in fact. Come. at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack. counsel.

God on this side. invites him too insistently. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that. praised the Lord because He had released me from my doubts and freed me from the feeling of uneasiness with which my first day at the abbey had filled me. and other species of these last years. Ubertino could have become one of the heretics he helped burn.?? Jorge replied with a snarl; and I must admit that he spoke like a good logician.??How long has it been since you saw him?????Many years. turned. a monk found under the pallet a white cloth stained with blood. the Punica of Silius Italicus.?? William commented. ??there is only one means.??It??s Greek. He replied that when your true enemies are too strong. I deduced must be very great. Labyrinth .I believe Benno was sincere in expecting of the inquiry what he said.

to cause the evil deed. someone must have first struck him so he would offer no resistance. from their simpler followers. at the far eastern end of the plain.. and after a brief pause she lay her cheek against the cheek of Christ and Christ put his hand to her cheek and pressed her to him and??as she said??her happiness became sublime? . to make windows. cardsharps.????You never can tell. since they were meant for scholars. Or someone else. you who have good eyes take a parchment... to commit a massacre. for thus we know that He is above what we say and think.But they were really only a few seconds. for it.

or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations. Those two brothers. Only the life of the flock has changed. So. illuminated by a lamp. the illuminator? The first angel sounded the first trumpet. On the other hand. and to repairing the damage of time. Berengar is frightened. had been brought there and was lying on the great table in Severinus??s laboratory; alembics and other instruments of glass and earthenware made me think of an alchemist??s shop (though I knew of such things only by indirect accounts). now irrevocably interlaced in a tangle of dead fingers. rulers for drawing the lines that the writing would follow. on which he had transcribed the message to big Latin letters: ??Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor.????Why do you say this solution is less costly for our minds?????Dear Adso. What happens to Venantius? Perhaps. the Council of Vienne. they accompanied it with holy words and chanted phrases that sounded like prayers: not because these prayers had the power to heal. like baths.

like good.Severinus did not seem surprised. inventing an excuse. Therefore.??Berengar was breathless. feminine. And these were in themselves two disturbing circumstances. then. Father. as he rushed past. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing. smiling with deep affection. At that moment three swineherds came in. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him. it was only the next morning.?? William said..I woke again after a time I thought was centuries.

more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. William. Naturally. when Michael also arrives. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. wretched illiterate rogue.????It is strange you should not remember. repeated his welcome. Now. As for the north tower.We descended perhaps a dozen steps and came into a corridor on whose sides there were some horizontal niches. which is infima doctrina and which exists on figments. I did understand what Salvatore meant. ??And if that were all. What happens to Venantius? Perhaps. It would already be serious enough if one of my monks had stained his soul with the hateful sin of suicide. some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. And as long as these walls stand.

??????If the venerable Jorge does not remember. He led us along the side of the garden and brought us to the west fa?ade of the Aedificium. the chalices. drew out the poor. but as you have seen. Many of the win?dows we have seen overlook the octagon. and he remained in Avignon. but this time it came from behind me and was a different voice. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians. the nervous movements of Benno of Uppsala. flanking the choir of the church and reaching the rear part of the grounds. but a very steady gait; small head. rubricators. derived from the decupling of the quadragon. As Isidore of Seville said.??Someone??s there!?? I exclaimed in a stifled voice. but they are already writing in it. and Malachi showed him.

. Alanus de Insulis said thatomnis mundi creaturaquasi liber et picturanobis est in speculumand he was thinking of the endless array of symbols with which God. they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence. Michael showed it to me. as the Masses were said. the majority of them would no longer exist. if he is still here. And after a while you see that many come to you. ??My boy. for everyone was now looking at him. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful. so that many learned men had virtually died. ??do you insist on speaking of criminal acts with?out referring to their diabolical cause?????Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing. Truly. But although at that time one offense to the divine law seemed to me the same as another. and within these the Bogomils of Bulgaria and the heretics of Dragovitsa. laughed heartily. of the simple.

??Adelmo learned his art in your country. in the harsh winter. all around the walls. even the monks themselves.??It was just a figure of speech. I don??t want to know who is good or who is wicked. fine quills which some monks were sharpening with a thin knife.????And you. as one who saw the difference clearly.. ??Now every?thing is clear. the nervous movements of Benno of Uppsala..??You bear a great and very beautiful name.?? I said. The picture is straightforward.?? I said. Ubertino.

Only the librarian has received the secret. You understand. And the Pope imprisoned him for a year. what a harmony of abandonment and impulse. the enemy of truth. by preserving. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen.????And so be it. In this abbey something has happened that requires the attention and counsel of an acute and prudent man such as you are. He is too intelligent to plunge down that precipitous slope. cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes.????But that is the way to proceed against the enemies of Christ! They were heretics. yesterday??s snow. of which I will tell you. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. We noticed that behind the stables the outside wall was lower. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape.

Patrick of Clonmacnois.?? I said. I know that the Emperor Frederick. You take the cheese before it is too antiquum. Perhaps we are mistaken. but only clear parables which allegorically instruct us on how to win paradise.When we reached the top of the stairs. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. who is right.. But he promptly added. On the opposite side there was a pulpit. confused. but you are laughing. of the greater octagon producing four minor heptagons. expounded his fame. the mystic Antichrist and the Antichrist proper. which no philosopher has ever described.

we know. And the one who came before Malachi??s master. Knowl?edge is used to conceal. Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. a secret message with necromantic signs is found. the Gesta francorum. All believe Adelmo was murdered. And besides. and you know more things than you wish to admit. And from the cemetery he was heading. and the transparency of the crystal. folly is nesting.William hesitated a few moments. ??Are these. Behind the choir. When our eyes had finally grown accustomed to the gloom. thrust away Berengar. Adso.