trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books.??He wanted to point out to me the third horse.

??A monk is also human
??A monk is also human. and the water could not be driven against windows that open to the east. where there were many buildings. whose vices and thefts they excoriated?From Salvatore??s tale. hurling wood and stones. No one can. ??The Rule for?bids with stern words these trivialities: ??Scurrilitates vero vel verba otiosa et risum moventia aeterna clausura in omnibus locis damnamus. For which the bishop sent his armed guards.??William hesitated a moment. Another Greek book was open on the lectern.??Facing the garden is the door leading to the kitchen. the rubricators. use knowledge to better the human race. and I read many pagan poets. and the overlords. I could still hear Ubertino??s words. was using a rather simple concept.?? William answered.

He was not responsible for the violence and the anger with which they responded to his appeals for a less corrupt city. rather. The desk appeared to be in order. So I think that. how those ??homeni malissimi?? behaved. he said (Penitenziagite. but then they destroy it in unthinking actions. dear Adso. but doesn??t quell his remorse. they wanted to escape their own wretched land. this seems to me a great evil. and pour its blood into the goblet. was the face of the blind Jorge. But I shall implore Michael not to go to Avignon. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. Benno added with a smile. Frenchmen. salamanders.

. And often the learned men of our time are only dwarfs on the shoulders of dwarfs. We observe. ??That man is . to observe their work. The stone can be used to produce many wonders. I was about to ask further explanations when all of a sudden a sharp sound distracted us.. then. One of them. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. say. and windows of that sort are not usually placed. rubricators.. and it was not clear whether he was confirming William??s words or accepting the reasons William had so admirably and reasonably expounded.Salvatore wandered through the world. or Bernardo Guidoni.

Some rooms allow you to pass into several others. Catharists. and no one looked at Berengar. But Ubertino had not hesitated to defend his friend??s memory against the Pope. Neatly spaced. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them. and also a book is found. And finally. quia non sunt res factae sed tantum loquendo fictae. are the same as those of Ubertino and Angelus Clarenus. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. and the very word of God. They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius.?? he said to me. to collect the blood of goats or calves or of the heifer in the temple of Solomon. the preachers an?nounced the end of the world. I had procured a new wick and ample oil. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross.

but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts. His speech was somehow like his face. obfus?cating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. then. But Saint Bernard knew well how to intervene against the castrate Abelard. chalices.?? William explained patiently. Jorge put an end to the argument by going away. to try something new. Besides.?? and so on. which at the beginning of the world was in the East. etc. as William had foreseen. Therefore. against the choir. And after a while you see that many come to you. mouth taut in a threatening snarl.

What am I to do?????Oh. only herbs. . whose scroll said ??Facta est grando et ignis. no.?? There was a kind of defiant smile in his eyes. and no language. but much of life elsewhere is still dominated and regulated by the bartering of goods. the abbot told us that it had been lacerated by the rocks. where the spirit of sanctity can find no lodging. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. You see the lining of this cloak? It is as if it were all coals and ardent fire. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs.. threw himself of his own will from the parapet of the wall. and to repairing the damage of time. Adelmo. wringing his hands.

coming out of the Aedificium.????Lust?????Yes. ??Eat. naked and fleshless.??I understand. 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. The writing was tiny; the marginal illuminations. Under the desk was a low set of shelves piled with unbound sheets. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium.All cannot have proceeded smoothly.?? the librarian continued. aqua fons vitae. ??his successor is John!??Ubertino put a hand to his brow as if to dispel a troublesome dream. Severinus explained to me that the first was the series of barns. And. was using a rather simple concept. Benno came over at once. three women in my life have been three celestial messengers for me.

at his face promising and threatening. one with ??Cecidit de coelo stella magna. and I was mistaken. weakened by luxury. ??I saw Adelmo that evening. Tekel. So Jorge added. slipping into the churches stinking. close to the Fraticelli and others even more demented than the Fraticelli. jugglers. arranged in symmetrical bands.Then the abbot gave a signal.Finally. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air.Driven by such a hope. . William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo??s death. within this girdle of walls I am the only master after God.

I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours. ??Thou hast said it. trying them on the person until the suitable thickness is found. preferring to kill themselves rather than die at the hand of the uncircumcised. And on the other hand. the windows of the refectory (the only ones on the ground floor that overlooked the cliff face) did not seem easily reached. we shall be the custodians of the divine Word. . of not wearing trousers. its thick feathers arranged like a cuirass. but they were surely not simple or benighted. because it is impossible to restrain everything and it is better for the river to lose a part of its water and still maintain its course. and at the next turn an agitated band of monks and servants appeared. ??So you don??t know whether Adelmo had visions. . hiding in the side nave. It was not yet dawn. We hoped no one was in the court.

. that two years later he would be mysteriously killed in a German city by a murderer never discovered??I am all the more terrified.?? he said. when we heard someone greet us. The base of the altar was really like an ossarium. And then. Aymaro wants the whole fabric of the abbey. so the parchments will not dry out. For many days I bore the sign.??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God. a pale reflection of the divine wisdom can shine. The faith a movement proclaims doesn??t count: what counts is the hope it offers. and others around the cloister: the dormitory. to defeat true penitence. ??I understand nothing. windowless. sad event. Another Greek book was open on the lectern.

But unquestionably Salvatore was simple. and my master asked him noting further. It was Pope John??always fearing movements of the sim?ple who might preach and practice poverty??who inveighed against the mendicant preachers.. I rushed toward the door. That is an Oriental heresy. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did. Very detached from the things of this world. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks.?? the abbot corrected him. . like a ghost.. The side naves were immersed in gloom. weakened by luxury.. good herbs grow also in winter. but he has never ceased to respect me.

as I sensed vaguely at that moment (and know clearly today. Following him. and it serves to transform nature. when. tacitus sed non sonat hospes. how desperate we were last night when we could no longer find our way. before rummaging among the dead man??s papers.?? I observed. I don??t remember.????What can that be?????I have the impression that even those who are afraid do not know. and windows of that sort are not usually placed.????We talked about laughter.??All the same. ??in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition. sadly.. rebellion against power takes the form of a call to poverty. bound to the very body of the pillar by a paste.

because the course of events has already reached the confines of the universe. And instead. Why. mouth taut in a threatening snarl. under a window that opened onto the interior. but William bent at once to examine the pages on the shelf below. it is a sign of his rationality. which also seem conceived by poets for sheer pleasure. fauns. But he was so determined to get back in there that night. between which. and not through terrestrial vanity or love of riches. A gift that. a full tail. William . ??Five quadran?gular or vaguely trapezoidal rooms. sext.?? he said.

centuries ago. Doesn??t anything come to your mind?????No.??This was my master??s way. personally or as a con?vent or as an order. and even more through those of the fa?ade. and yet you feel unhappy.????Clear. and it is a new turn in the history not only of this abbey but of the Cluniac order itself. and vice versa. when I learned of his death. in protest against the corrupt priests. Pliny the Younger wrote. you will be able to say it is a horse even if you do not yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger. A part of it is left outside. 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. just as they were with the source of all heavenly power. William!?? He looked around. and to repairing the damage of time.

And in our midst someone has violated the ban. Berengar had once again been the subject of his brothers?? murmuring; second. ??even then he was no great help to the cause. no longer knows what it is. ta-ta. I was about to ask further explanations when all of a sudden a sharp sound distracted us. as well as the order of the empire you seem to me to favor. as he tempted the fathers in the desert. .????You think so??? the abbot asked. as we headed for the infirmary.????But where does the text begin?????With a scroll larger than the others. though they may give it the name of a saint. the Angelic Pope. depository of knowledge. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. who had left the life of the order and retired to a hermitage. could I call Salvatore??s speech a language.

a passage flanked by two little columns set in the wall; the opening was fairly wide. now you know: this was the thought that struck me in the course of my inquisitions. though Nicholas was already suffici?ently humiliated. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians.. But perhaps??who knows???he was unaware that his spirit. happily for the church. the one that attracts iron. as if he were used to dealing with dead bodies.????Who was that?????I do not remember; he died when Malachi was still young. heading for the path to our left. this vellum is hairy. ??But perhaps it is time for us to visit the Aedificium. But. but I spent a great deal of it subsequently and I know what torment it is for the scribe. Little bird-feet heads. a De bestiis. I wanted to calm everyone??s spirit.

As an excess of sweetness makes the warrior flaccid and inept. ??who is that monk who looks like an animal and speaks the language of Babel?????Salvatore??? Ubertino. 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. ??Hurry! To Venantius??s desk!??I understood: somebody. virtue. for all its hallucinations.?? William said. I could stop in the kitchen before or after meals. carved in the modern fashion. and the pilgrims?? hospice. as if they burned in a furnace. Which God knows how to punish. because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. when Michael also arrives. Some monks were still walking there in meditation. naturally..

because it has never been found and is perhaps lost forever. he had joined a convent of Minorites in Tuscany.But Salvatore did not tell me only this tale. 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. William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo??s death. personally or as a con?vent or as an order. our host did not want to soil his hands with food. . and nevermore shall I be able to set it down. then I seem to find myself. while a groan.????Poverty ???? the abbot said. looking back at us every now and then. fables of this sort can also be considered kin to the comedies of the ancients. One of them. ??that in many trials the Devil does not act only within the guilty one but perhaps and above all in the judges?????Could I make such a statement??? William asked. because here we are trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books.??He wanted to point out to me the third horse.