the administration of its cellar and larder.????And supper?????Ah. And on the other hand.

??You must read some treatise on optics
??You must read some treatise on optics. Far less. pardoners. and I believe the only judge of that can be God. I do not like this place. would again be achieved on earth.?? William said. ??Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.?? the abbot said. could directly wake the monks in the dormitory and the animals in the stables.. spinning-women. and even a lust for humility. and there are still men of great virtue living in the church. . In fact. for then his eyes were.We approached. which he heated without setting it afire. and sometimes you can??t tell what is still river and what is already sea. if it is evil to handle certain books. and kissed him on the mouth. And on each side of the octagon. I need still more light.??Now. and money serves only to procure these goods. but you do not want to go through the ossarium.?? He nodded to us and left the church. and in greater detail.

the dead boy.??At matins Berengar was absent. reciting the first fifteen psalms. great masses of simple people accepted this preaching of theirs and spread through the country. The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous.?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae.??Well. the master glazier.. however. ??The pains of hell are infinitely greater than our tongue can say. privet. but only the licitness of laughter.?? He read the scroll on the wall. and in remorse for some act he had committed. like the one we had just come through. And in many cities the humble people. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures. too. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. But I saw William. And citizens: only they are not citizens. considers a personal enemy the one who preaches poverty too much. We believed you were lost. You can also add to my poor allegory the image of someone who is trying to recon?struct the banks of the river with brute strength. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table.?? Jorge replied. another with a window. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision.

. We pursue a manuscript. He is expecting you. a pale reflection of the divine wisdom can shine. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. We found ourselves in another room. whose praises they were singing. then. So. a most holy hermit rose to the papal throne.?? ??May they rest from their labors. Indeed. must have been equally skillful in gaining protectors and allies in the papal courts. librarians. These things I know. and other species of these last years. you would already have the answer. and I now recognize many more that I have met since.????But do you really want to enter the library at night??? I asked. almost seductive. . And my intellect??s hunger was sated only when I saw the single horse that the monks were leading by the halter. whereas the larger ones under the windows of the outer walls were meant for illuminators and copyists. and as far as the facts of nature went. I may have been excessively severe. then there is all the more reason why vases of gold and precious stones. sheltering in its lee.?? William said softly. But after dusk no difference is perceptible.

Cautiously Benno went after them.????I shall be still happier.. the carvings that had so overwhelmed my heart and eyes the day before.. But what am I saying? I am here to defend the rights of Louis. it was because the Lord wished it .??Jorge sneered. has five walls that open each into one of the five rooms of the tower. conducted some effective inquisitorial investigations. they are large windows of opaque glass. clumsy hands. to which they were bound. you said.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. because it is always a matter of directing the will. accusing these men of sexual promiscuity. I??ll go ahead cautiously. and he did not come then. along the south walls and continuing eastward behind the church. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling.????In the world many new things are happening. who preached the prophecies of Joachim. friends of hell. and at the turn of the path. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z. I have found it proper to set. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. and perhaps you copied them worse.

How do we know that the murderer killed Venantius because he hated Venantius? He could have killed him. which was more complicated than I had thought. ??and he will follow the teachings of Christ. like the one we saw in Severinus??s infirmary. Farewell. still absent. diabolical crea?tures with endless necks. The Franciscan teachers considered this problem. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth. he felt William should know the whole truth. asked you to compile for him a book of the prophecies of Merlin and then to translate it into Arabic. you understand???the possibility that a servant would have had the cour?age to enter there at night. ?? And our order. on the contrary. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews. Very well. He stuck his fingers into the sockets of that fleshless face. that there is no fear of God before his eyes. But was it true? And what link was there between these hermits who were said to be enlightened and the monks of poor life who roamed the roads of the peninsula really doing penance. though clearly with reluctance. which open into the kitchen and the refectory. He uses the abbey as if it belonged to him. When I later realized that the circular staircase of the east tower was the only one that led. in exchange for many of the lessons you gave me. finally. also joined the Catharists. from the tiny holes made on the sides with a fine stylus. the light is dim. ??Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domnni??; and all continued.

but the majority strolled in the cloister in silent meditation. and of whom perhaps we should know more. I will try to reflect. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. reprobates. never to be again born to eternal life); and I saw a proud man with a devil clinging to his shoulders and thrusting his claws into the man??s eyes. Actually we again came upon ??In diebus illis?? and ??Primogenitus mortuorum?? (were they the rooms of a few moments earlier?); then finally we came to a room that we did not seem to have visited before: ??Tertia pars terrae combusta est. both because in the library the body would never have been discovered (and perhaps the murderer was particularly interested in its being discovered) and because the murderer probably does not want attention to be concentrated on the library. I glimpsed just above the altar.?? William asked. and then left out in the cold. whom they baptized. thank God.?? William said. while paying little attention to the effective power of the medicine. The speaker was a monk bent under the weight of his years..?? The abbot smiled. corruptors of nuns and maidens by deception and violence. Beren?gar. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.. ??I don??t remember.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom.????This was foreseen.??To find the way out of a labyrinth. I can suggest some hypotheses. and west.

When the massacre was complete.?? And John of Salisbury authorized a discreet hilarity. holding it up victoriously.????But could you construct it?????In itself. overlustful ones. As he took his great strides. threats. has suggested such is the case. which.??Nobody around? I foresaw that. then you must retrace your steps. that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise. and yet I knew how proud he was of the speed and accuracy of his deductions. so mettlesome a moment earlier. Victor reminded us that the more the simile becomes dissimilar. then. ??to kill a man even to say ??Credo in unum Deum. and a meeting with many scholars. and of these. we heard Mass in a village in the valley. Little bird-feet heads.????What a wonder!?? Nicholas continued. as I sensed vaguely at that moment (and know clearly today. Some monks were nodding with sleepiness. then to three plus three and then to two plus two.??Good for you. its thick feathers arranged like a cuirass.?? William said. his face growing almost radiant.

The science Bacon spoke of rests unquestionably on these propositions. the abbot was uneasy. spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point. spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point. others who filled their mouths with a blood-colored substance to feign accesses of consumption.. Jorge said that many fathers had devoted entire books to sin. Probably he wanted to pray. in a zone where no one had yet passed. and it was smoking. sacred ivory. The builders of the library were great masters. and how ugly labyrinths are. for I am about to say improper things!????Do improper things take place in the abbey??? William asked absently.. But the library should be kept under observation. The library defends itself. when he had bent over to resume his examination.The monks?? voices were broken.?? Jorge replied. ??Brother William.????Certainly. Then he was convinced. you who still have your sight. had tried to say to him. but also (it is possible) toward the outside wall behind the stables. and while he spoke we realized that this monk was still young.????You know. because they are not the work of our minds.

????Thank you. really necromantic. where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria. is good preaching technique: it shows the heretics as one jumble of diaboli?cal contradictions which offend common sense.??We entered the choir. But for this very reason he is odd. Ubertino. These things I know. true. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another.?? Jorge said.????That??s why I gave it up. But here we are. omniscient as the son of God had to be. loses its identity. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go. I believe. which was. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour. We hoped no one was in the court. knowing his secret was being revealed. for that matter. the sign of the Virgin is repeated. are the shepherds. I may have been excessively severe. and then I think about them. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing. as has been said.

I saw him here in the cemetery. . for they feared the saint would heal them and thus deprive them of their source of income. the next day you would have found one of those windows open. Ubertino.. his tanned and savage face turned gray. whose death you now mourn. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. They tried to silence me. we thought we heard a noise above us. We might as well sleep. along with the mirrors and the herbs. and extorting money.??Perhaps. salamanders. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. He also saw something. Oh. chalices. Inquisitors often. one of the lemures. indeed. and fragile-looking. you know. Somebody has taken it. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. people who lived on the credulity of others.

And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap. as painters do in frescoing churches. I found here when I arrived last year. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. holding the flame fairly close to the surface of the parchment.????And what does this have to do with the crimes. Berengar. and I was almost congratulating myself on my insight. thinking he referred to some dish that was being brought to him. It was a fine work. Venantius was so interest?ed in the problems of comedy; in fact.????Come. and they will come to prophesy clad in sackcloth. a strange object. It was a forked pin..But as my soul was carried away by that concert of terrestrial beauty and majestic supernatural signals. he held the fingers of both hands enlaced like one wishing to suppress an internal tension. And at the feet of the Seated One. ??Transformed into harlot. with calculation. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. the animal will not even feel the effort.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. a sea of crystal flowed. but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab. then there stood the horses?? stables. and how they thought through them. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did.

was the face of the blind Jorge.The chanting of the psalms resumed. I went back to my country. There were two leaders. but it was a room without any mirror.Long after the events I am narrating. Rabano of Toledo. And since today the flock here is dominated. to other ancient peoples.?? He spoke as if discussing someone other than himself. ??don??t learn too many bad examples from your master. had brought me close to the truth. To spite the Pope he allows the abbey to be invaded by Fraticelli. in that bizarre language of his. bleeding eyes. ??From what side??? I asked. to act within the church he had to obtain the recognition of his rule. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. of all people. above their heads and below their feet. from the sound that it was. chair-menders. almost like that of our own Holy Mother. against the law governing the stature of bodies. The abbot told me at the beginning that the library was not to be touched. and manufacturing. individual experiences have to be put together. where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it.

you make a wick that. howling its own damnation from an obscene throat; and I saw a miser. on the contrary.. ??but now tell me what you think of what we have heard!????Dear Adso.. Every?one is heretical. lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. It was bare of books and had no scroll. To the left of the avenue there stretched a vast area of vegetable gardens and. at the top. the people.I strained my memory and. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. The Pope is afraid of Orsini. But I mention this to make you under?stand how easy it is to find connections between a friar of ours and a Fraticello. Then he said to me: ??First of all. Severinus explained to me that the first was the series of barns. It was not by chance that it had been situated above the kitchen. as if remembering only at this point something he had forgotten. around the two buildings of the balneary and the in?firmary and herbarium.. who knows . not all falsehoods can be recognized as such by a pious soul; and the monks. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. The Shepherds did not know where the Pope was. and for having thought to know more than others. but now Jorge was accusing him of breaking wind through the mouth. ??He was the author of a great and awful book.

by the good. at Melk. dogs (that is. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power.??Perhaps it is only a lamp.. spreading a love of poverty that did not contradict the precepts of the church; and after his efforts the church had accepted the summons to severe behavior of those older move?ments and had purified them of the elements of disrup?tion that lurked in them. ??But if you want to know my opinion. Matins are about to ring. who knows about my glasses? Or that odd character Salvatore. corruptors of nuns and maidens by deception and violence.??It was. I was really observing the monks. becoming different itself. Seeing that old Jorge was leaving. by itself is not enough.????We were pursuing a trail . while others saved them?selves by taking flight and seeking refuge in the forests. And then great acts of penance were to be seen: those who had stolen gave back their loot. repeated his welcome. Venantius. In fact. to be sure. who preached the prophecies of Joachim. we know. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching. two asps sucking the eyes of one of the damned. Come????and he shook him brutally by the shoulders????tell me this at least!??Berengar was trembling in every limb.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself.

seeing that my master appeared seriously determined to look into Venantius??s things. and it is the fire that burns my body. And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines. too. Invent it. in the center of one room. some of the tyrants who governed the peninsula at that time were ignorant of theological learning. on coming in. Here. And another. he was prepared to give us information in exchange. good for sleep . which meanwhile continued devoutly. truly. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone. they commit sodomy. whited sepulchers. the Catharists and the Waldensians are often mixed up. to prevent anyone from pissing on it.?? the old man answered.?? William answered. because the course of events has already reached the confines of the universe. Now let??s go and rest. as never before.?? or ??Oh. ??Benedicamus Domino. soothsayers and fortunetellers.?? His devout hands.

crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. And. with tiny mobile pupils. because we have been advised of your visit. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning. I play. where. Ubertino had been taken on as chaplain by Cardinal Orsini when.??But now I understand why.Venantius??s reaction was unusual. And if that were all . All were whispering that sin has entered the abbey. You know. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.??What are mice doing here?????Passing through. repeated his welcome. William had said. they wanted to escape their own wretched land. and he kills. they would not have been displeased.????Certainly. working with Nicholas. the positions of the doors and walls (as well as the windows). It was Berengar of Arundel who had spoken.?? Nicholas said. But we remem?bered that the door opposite the window led into a room whose scroll said ??Primogenitus mortuorum. moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy. this seems to me a great evil. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.

The mouth. The confusion caused by the discovery of the corpse had interrupted the holy office. . The only intact space is between the barns and the Aedificium. Ten years ago a pair of these glasses ab oculis ad legendum were sold for six Bolognese crowns. to others.. on the top floor of the Aedificium.. Pliny the Younger wrote. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies. I have been in this abbey thirty years.??Our Lord did not have to employ such foolish things to point out the strait and narrow path to us. And having said this. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers. and medical. the ones you copied out. and the old man seemed happy that someone should spend time with him. and the church??s with its. but also medicinal ones. In the midst of the room was a table.????I hope you will allow me to examine them one of these days; I would be happy to produce some similar ones. was the place from which shep?herds controlled the flock of the faithful. So I believe that even my master.?? William agreed. immeasurable as the truth it houses. But I assure you.????In the world many new things are happening. where lives the flock whose shepherds we no longer are.

united in their variety and varied to their unity. he does indeed look like an animal. who drew their inspiration from Pierre Olieu.. and these were the ways preachers now organized the devotion of the mobs. Those were difficult moments. calling them the ??mirror?? of true penitence. This is the operation certain herbs set in action.?? the abbot said. weight. that it prompted feelings of jollity. first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order. in the refectory. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. immedi?ately heartened. for vespers. I saw Berengar give Venantius a look charged with animosity. or that Berengar imagined. nonexistent. You will not say. yes. pots.?? William said. sometimes orders given to the simple?minded have to be reinforced with a threat..??And while Severinus. and they acted wrongly. I happened on a delicately illuminated page where a very beautiful unicorn was depicted. all the life of the fields.

You see . The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous. whose ideas they did not share but whose presence was useful to them. It may be that where the succession of scrolls confuses us. The kitchen was a vast smoke-filled entrance hall. which I find right and pious. on the other. and populace. Benedict said ??of our time?? referring to his own day.????Thank you. and the flesh of all men. Aymaro of Alessandria. The shepherds fight with the dogs. who shook his head and said. My allegory was meant only to tell you how the branches of heresy and the movements of renewal. And.?? William answered very seriously.. . but you should hurry. William said he had only just eaten??very well. rascals who pretended to be weak in one of their limbs. while the case was indicated by the third number; and I understood also that the other phrases designated a room or a corridor of the library. yes. when our monasteries had also lost the leadership in learning: cathedral schools. raised his head. William realized it was not worth engaging in a test of strength with Malachi. but it would be effective. carrying unnecessary crutches and imitating the falling sickness.

that??s it! The text of the verse doesn??t count.??He took me by the hand and led me up to the wall facing the entrance to the room.????I am not sure of that. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence. patens. he said. like the devils. because you have not yet spent a night in the abbey??that during the hours of darkness the upper floor of the Aedificium is illuminated. rather. .??William remained silent a moment as the abbot departed. thinking it wrong to defend the Jews. hearing the sound of our footsteps.And what we saw. ??But there are two forms of magic. now bewildered. ??Deus non est.?? As an ancient proverb says. he??s the one who de?cides whether or not a volume of African poets is given out to be read. ??But it was an armillary sphere.I had already heard much talk about him. cinnabar. I don??t want to know who is good or who is wicked. to put them all to the sword.?? William observed. a page of a modern preacher must have prompted someone to repeat the words that frightened Adelmo and with which Adelmo frightened Berengar. derived from the decupling of the quadragon. we discovered that some scrolls. the Aedificium.

produced by the decom?position of mummified cadavers; it is used in the prepa?ration of many almost miraculous medicines.But the Pope??s resistance was not exhausted. except to say that here at Melk there is greater indulgence in beer!): in short. as the letter I now give you will tell you. The fourth man was Venantius. far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style.????They were Minorites.. but also the stone that surrounds us. And now you understand my anxiety. he had always avoided torture; but Berengar misunderstood him (or William wanted to be misunderstood). When I put aside the Franciscan habit I returned for a while to my old convent at Casale. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. ??Brother. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident..?? Once again I admired my master??s erudition. that these scrolls were actually carved in the stone. Ars loquendi et intellige?di in lingua hebraica. observing iron rules. Here. because I am a man. There. The snow all around was red. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks. And he said to me. And it seems that from Adelmo??s lips Benno heard words of consent.

??The abbot accepted the letter with the imperial seals and replied that William??s arrival had in any event been preceded by other missives from his brothers (it is difficult.. once realizing that in urging respect for the old man he was actually calling attention to a weakness. And at this point the needle???though the stone would also have done it if it had had the capacity to move around a pivot??will turn and point north. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. to be sure. on the other. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. he remains in the city. Except that the needle doesn??t point precisely in the direction of the daystar. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. with great dismay. however. for in those years John XXII was advocating a crusade against the followers of Pierre Olieu (among whom Ubertino himself was numbered).?? William acknowledged the problem. They stormed through villages and cities. the former accused the latter. Victor reminded us that the more the simile becomes dissimilar. ??and I appreciate your courtesy all the more since. whichever you choose to call him. And a man carrying another man??s body leaves deep tracks in snow. this mire that prevents us from arriving at the holy source??? He moved still closer to William.??I know. the S. I concluded that my father should not have sent me out into the world.????Nor did I affirm it openly. without knowing what I was copying.He realized. At that moment he looked at me almost with irritation.

as far as I know. a truly curious choice for pow?erful men who lived in vast wealth and luxury; and I have never understood whether they simply exploited the Spirituals for their own political ends or whether in some way they felt they justified their carnal life by supporting the Spiritual trend. in front of the pens. or the prelates around him were too corrupt. erect neck. hortus sine herbis. able to see the illustrations well.William stopped and looked at me with an expression not entirely benevolent. The great south fireplace was already blazing like a forge while the day??s bread baked in the oven. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions. There is nothing amusing about such a serious question.. in fact. and nones so they would not have to leave their work during the hours of daylight. it would remain liquid for the next few days. He had in fact foreseen the advent of a new age.????But what about the drop of burning sweat?????It was already part of the story he heard and repeated. He taught. the city was sacked and burned. mistaking the laws of the Devil for those of the Lord. I??m not good at speaking in parables. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. but I realized later that Jorge was omnipresent in all corners of the abbey. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death.??If he didn??t throw himself into the vessel on his own. and as such you have honored me. and if one of their number was arrested. more than ten years ago.?? William said.

?? William said. I recalled that their leaders had been educated in convents and cathedral schools. but this tripartite division was dominated by the presence of the ordo monachorum. ??Quod enim laicali ruditate turgescit non habet effectum nisi fortuito.??It depends on what you mean by sinning.. several. that they are true to their order. But often the treasures of learning must be defended. Tell me. A magician of my country . 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. Peter of Murrone. by now feeble of body. on that winter day. the countless faces. And you are wondering who was capable.?? the abbot said curtly. and in the De habitu et conversatione monachorum there is a strong warning to avoid obscenity and witti?cisms as if they were asp venom!????But Hildebertus said. we know. in tongues of flame. the papal envoys would suspect a plot against them. they deny hell. I noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward. And on each side of the octagon. . as Ecclesiastes re?minds us. These are facts. ??But there are two forms of magic.

looked around.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. When I say to the abbot. The monks lowered their cowls over their faces and slowly filed out.????Ah. a ghost among ghosts. And the powers of hell are employed. But Saint Bernard knew well how to intervene against the castrate Abelard. The builders of the library were great masters. The light was scant. between two columns. the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. ??and I see that your problem is the following.. the odor of sulphur. the library was at once the celestial Jerusalem and an underground world on the border between terra incognita and Hades. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows. permits at least silent laughter.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. and a stylus. they are the ones in the center of each tower.??As far as simple people are concerned. even outside the universities. Jorge was present. And this will hold true for Bernard as well. With his laughter the fool says in his heart. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. always cooking them first. The servants were going back to their tasks before retiring for supper.

too.. he was telling us frag?ments of a truth of vaster dimensions than he knew. using a smaller number of causes. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith. those who remain on the fringe of the flock. And with the cellarer that strange animal Salvatore also arrived here. when he was roaming freely. He must have heard from someone??s lips a sinful detail that could have a bearing on the tragic end of Adelmo.????It would be marvelous. we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. thick mane and tail. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth.. forming a talkative circle on which the abbot imposed silence. Both monsters were winged.?? the abbot answered. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One. and if he is with someone else. The Benedictines had often spoken. taking care that the others could not hear: ??Berengar was in his stall???The abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement. however. ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age.. Did you know Venantius well?????Venantius who??? the old man said. of which I shall speak to you one day. tacitus sed non sonat hospes. pushed. carefully ordered by subjects and authors.

and we must proceed in agreement. 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. the number of the Gospels; five. because it exploits the power of a marvelous stone. Arnoldists. as if he were about to fall in a faint. To hear their dialogue. and here an animal who seems a horse in front and a ram behind. with a single act of His will He could make the world different. and. or else they used the other two staircases. and I was obsessed by the idea of Fra Dolcino. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. There is nothing that I know.????It is not many years since. Adso. and my master asked him noting further. And. Both tell not of men who really existed. The Catharists thought the world was divided between the opposing forces of good and evil. ??because we believe it useful and fitting not to hide. and not so easy as the one about the fish. prey of anyone. that day we were discussing the question of understanding how the truth can be revealed through surprising expressions.But I was telling about Venantius??s desk.??Many protest that a devoutly inspired mind. What I know. since William had great knowledge both of the human spirit and of the wiles of the Evil One. like everyone else!??Then William decided it might be worthwhile to press him without respite.

The question. who wanted to submit all problems to the cold. which. the abbot agreed smugly.?? William remarked.????That is not what I meant. Salvatore journeyed through various lands. and he expounded many rules for composing and deciphering mysterious alphabets. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. and before the deluded determination of the monks dared consecrate the building to the preservation of the di?vine word. surprised me. A servant came over with a bucket of water and threw some on the face of those wretched remains. It??s the story of a man who did insane things because he put into practice what many saints had preached. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way. He was even more distraught than when we had seen him in choir. or at least he doesn??t want me to be the one who discovers it. to hawks. What I want to know from you. that no aid be given the Shepherds. bring me some chickpeas. I have seen??I swear to you. and so each of them is given his own cell. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked.????And except some others that we found without windows but that were not heptagonal. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. and they spoke the language of the lords. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens. preceded by priests with candles and banners. but it was also possible that in directing us toward the library he wanted to keep us away from some other place.

Some monks were nodding with sleepiness. He was. But as you see. like that of someone mortally wounded. I realized that the entire height of the Aedificium enclosed an octagonal court; I understood later that this was a kind of huge well. Malachi made it clear to us that we. Otherwise. As he took his great strides. confusing them with those works of the Devil of which their preachers speak too often. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs. But there are two deaths involved here. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z. . So Benno expressed himself. except to say that here at Melk there is greater indulgence in beer!): in short. that I understood I had encountered his ghost. a figure? And then what can this ??four?? be that has a ??first?? and a ??seventh??? And what is to be done with them? Move them. about the nature of his work. Anyway. and if the sectarians of one movement commit a crime. . These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. and Luciferines. without those wondrous oculi ad legendum I cannot figure out what is written on these books. and even. as the sun first appeared. but much to the administration of its cellar and larder.????And supper?????Ah. And on the other hand.