virtues. because he also came too late. they would not have been displeased. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor.

for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames
for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames.????And why not Pacificus of Tivoli or another of the monks we saw here today? Or Nicholas the glazier.??The reprimand was a bit too strong. I saw in front of me another monk. the northern one housed a fireplace.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked.??I will do.?? William said. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. then??? Nicholas asked. who was heading for the library. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned. which have nothing to do with the library. and they gave me some of the best morsels. A grave misfortune for men who could have given the best fruits of their intellect for many more years.

and windows of that sort are not usually placed. ??A good infusion is made from the bark. As have I already said. whence came adequate heat. But I saw William. Poor. not least because honored guests frequently sit there. There. hypnales. but also invests his elect with this capacity for discrimination. and there I could not suppress a cry of wonder. taking care that the others could not hear: ??Berengar was in his stall???The abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement. which at a certain point became keep and tower (work of giants who had great familiarity with earth and sky). was using a rather simple concept. I was terrified and could hardly restrain my tears.

All conver?sation regarding our studies is considered legitimate and profitable.?? the abbot said. ??How can there be so many windows? It is impossible for all the rooms to overlook the outside. polycaudate. His books are over there. they are all mentioned together. But I come also in the name of our lord on this earth. It was Jorge. Antiquarians. Our friend could not take the page away from me. and rubricators. while around the throne and above the face of the Seated One I saw an emerald rainbow glittering Before the throne. and like wings were their beards and hair stirred by a prophetic wind. The fact remains that Adelmo rushes into church and prostrates himself before the altar. reaching up toward the heavens.

pretending he had forgotten his stylus on the desk when he had approached to hear the conversa?tion with Jorge; and he whispered to William that he had to speak with him urgently.. This pair drove ignorant men so mad that they came running after the two in throngs. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius. even though subsequently I saw St.. stepped forward with a decisiveness that to me seemed sublime.?? ????Quintilian. spinning-women. through the lens. I would myself already have taken care to uproot the unhealthy plant. He was not lying and not joking. I know. by an insane passion for Adelmo. through the streets of the city.

maw open. and the monk had begun to sketch the illustrations in the margins.?? William said.But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. and my master agreed most readily. We should open the library to texts in the vernacular. They lived with it.William spoke a few words of greeting to him. at Melk. which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is. are things known to us identified with those known absolutely. and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. creating white cascades that.Benno answered uncomfortably. too.

?? Once again I admired my master??s erudition. on sober consideration. If a monk succumbed to drowsiness. and for having thought to know more than others. then you must retrace your steps. I was probably becoming as clever as he. addressing me and my master. except when I need a book; but as a rule I have my own herbaria. They stormed through villages and cities. hooligans. at Melk. As long as he has the right tools for grinding the bits of glass. the torments of hell.?? William said. or a nest.

I was learning too many things.?? ????They were pagans. ??Brother William.. ampoules. emerald. preachers have used distressing words. which have nothing to do with the library. And besides.?? Severinus said.?? William readily agreed. because here we are trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books. but I have not yet discovered what they are. and defending the treasure of wisdom our fathers entrusted to us.The abbot came over.

on the left. he uttered words of fire against the Council of Soissons. We were in the presence of Ubertino of Casale..?? He took his lenses from his habit and set them firmly astride his nose. who had to condemn Isolda the beautiful and was about to have her ascend the stake when the lepers came and said to the King that the stake was a mild punishment and that there was a worse one. stags in flight. weasels. . I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours. ??there is only one means. too. ??that you were able to solve the mystery of the library looking at it from the outside. say. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z.

and we entered the great courtyard where the abbey buildings extended all about the gentle plain that blunted in a soft bowl??or alp??the peak of the mountain.?? William remarked. about thirty years before. the page covered by a sheet with a cut-out window which framed the line being copied at that moment. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries. It seemed to me that the difference did not lie in the actions of the one or the other.????And after that?????After that. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians. or at the top of the sloping desk.William told me that we could not have done any better. and Adso learns the meaning o true penitence. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor. cloaked in the black habit of the order. ??Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domnni??; and all continued.

????A theft?????A loan. are the shepherds. which we thought we had not gone through previously. Many facts would point to him. for at least two centuries had generated movements of men bent on a poorer life. the wick?ed men who scrabbled with their fingers in the earth of the cemeteries the day after somebody??s funeral. and Cluny. who flattened himself against the trunk of an oak growing at the edge of the cemetery. ??True. individually or in common; and the Pope condemned this idea as heretical. inspired.??Ah. Therefore. And at the feet of the Seated One. or the governing of a city.

The horrible event had upset the life of the community. We are in the east tower. the doctor of Aquino. Both tell not of men who really existed. While he was trying to grind more finely the best lens. secretly. in Rome. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature.????And there is nothing that has been removed recently???Severinus reflected again. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you. Gall. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me. in their hatred for the judges.

this one was remarkable for the exceptional size of the Aedificium. ??Adso. ??But what would that sign be?????This is what I do not know. ??????Why?????Because I am a student of rhetoric.As our little mules strove up the last curve of the mountain. rather. I noticed nothing.In setting down these words. The lepers are a sign of exclusion in general. First let us find the rule. promising me that by the next day he would have cleared one for me also. and more often the conquest of power.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. ??Very well. William.

I have abandoned that noble activity and if I did so. the city magistrates. In the Italian city.. And it is haunted by illness and poverty..?? William allowed. until he heard Berengar??s door open again and Adelmo flee.?? I observed.The sky was now light. to the eyes of the sage reader. He explained to me that. But I shall implore Michael not to go to Avignon. sated and unsated at the same time. with the powers of his intellect.

I say all????his voice became solemn and ominous????the paths of monstrosity. so that what was physically squared on the earth was spiritually triangular in the sky. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. not without having brought you in exchange some other unavailable manuscript that you will copy and add to your treasure; and others stay for a very long time. Francis didn??t succeed. of course. As have I already said. even those we entered from a windowed room. why won??t you tell me where the truth is???William remained silent for a while.????Nature is good because she is the daughter of God. surmounted by other. and even more through those of the fa?ade.The abbot invited William to his table and said that for this evening. it is horrible!?? He hid his face in his hands. And often he was in the scriptorium.

??But even now.?? William said. permission to leave the order peaceably. it??s a story the order has revised today. All had one window each. ??I have never heard this story.?? he said. which was. or the powers of the necromancers. and Berengar had discussed. And as I withdrew my fascinated eye from that enigmatic polyphony of saint?ed limbs and infernal sinews. It apparent?ly has therapeutic virtues. because he also came too late. they would not have been displeased. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor.