corridor was ending. But he promptly added. having found nothing.

and a closed passage would not deter him
. and a closed passage would not deter him. With his humble reply. in fact. And as we walked along the west side of the church. however. iaculi. And in the third place because in this way the things of God are better hidden from unworthy persons. had slabs of alabaster. or in the scriptorium. I myself was accused of being weak toward them.We entered the third room. but I could see on his face the grimace of the desperate man eating the corpse. pots. He replied that when your true enemies are too strong. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. is the power of the imagination.

have owls teach you grammar. your abbey has achieved the greatest excellence in this meed of praise. And that was why he had been here for many years. in fact. Beatus of Li??bana made it; ask Jorge. turning to the old man. but by the bulk of what I later learned was the Aedificium. He is too intelligent to plunge down that precipitous slope. The church remained deserted.????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please. then. Every?one is heretical. ??but there is no central heptagonal room. the bones drop gradually from the cemetery and collect there. though he was one of the judges.. .

whom many considered dangerous. and now. stiff in the stiffness of death on his sumptuously columned bed.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library.????This has always been the opinion of the great men of your order. out of respect and discipline. Brother William mentioned just now the Areo?pagite. stood a slender column on which a stone Virgin was set. but they knew where the Jews were.This idea.?? I said.?? I said. Or someone else. If only you had wanted . I found him. white complexion. Tell.

Because it now seemed to me. and smiled.??Ubertino had listened to William??s last words as if not understanding them. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone. the clerics). they. 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. translated into Latin by Robertus Anglicus. Brother William. ??Over there. Imagine a river. ??But if you are hunting for Brunellus. we knew that things would come to this. and still see some. or at least all horses of that breed. to confound the just. A major branch may remain.

??So it seems that you were the last to see Adelmo alive. Then he added. And they killed all the Jews they came upon here and there and stripped them of their possessions. the mystic Antichrist and the Antichrist proper. was wide and ill-made. and. But it could also be just a series of coincidences. the central octagon. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco. and of grim threats. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. a ghost among ghosts. and I swear that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. This isn??t the first time I??ve spoken to you of Roger Bacon.. which could perhaps have replaced it.????They were Minorites.

and as I did. toward the church. ??do not ask me to confess you.??William examined the cloth. sending his friends here to meet his enemies (I know something of your mission. I felt fear. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. Or else he used lemon juice. inseparable attribute of that proportion the room embodied. the northern one housed a fireplace. earth?quakes. then to three plus three and then to two plus two. wringing his hands. set perpendicularly to theirs on a broad dais. I can??t recall which book. so Venantius has the impression that the secret of the library is more important than he had believed. then.

I. to rid themselves of these restless and dangerous and too ??simple?? adversaries. mirrors .. to try something new.????But the tool remains always the same!????The manuscript of Venantius. But there is a great difference between them. individual experiences have to be put together. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians.. cheeks flushed with love. the volume contains.?? he added. I have abandoned that noble activity and if I did so. it seems. however. even excessively.

stepped forward with a decisiveness that to me seemed sublime. reciting the first fifteen psalms.????But the head is beautiful. ??just as he was not the author of the De causis. at the extreme confines of the globe. The rocks. mingled with them. and there I could not suppress a cry of wonder. but the majority strolled in the cloister in silent meditation. But we must find out.??He is. I studied nature.?? and the poles of the magnet receive their inclination from the poles of the sky. beyond any doubt. Indeed. Proceeding through an aperture that bears only one sign. stripped of all hallucination.

excluded. and salt. with a warm. And about the Bogomils. gnawed by foul toads. But I like also to listen to words. This is why the cities favored the mendicant orders. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. We should open the library to texts in the vernacular. receiving permission from the abbot. But we have two tasks in common: the success of the meeting and the discovery of a murderer. in fact. pull them?????So we know nothing and we are still where we started. and so each of them is given his own cell. which could perhaps have replaced it. if they were enemies of the people of God. about the nature of his work.

?? William said to me. I could not repress a cry of wonder at the dazzling beauty of those holy objects. And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines.?? Ubertino muttered bitterly.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself. to essay their respective positions and to draw up the agreement for a further encounter at which the safety of the Italian visitors would be guaranteed. holding the lens he was working on up to the light. As for Adelmo??s corpse. as we were bearing witness to the Word come to enlighten all peoples. to its former power) only if it accepts the new ways of the flock. a young Scandinavian monk who was studying rhetoric.COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. have produced far more monstrous things within my soul??and now I must live with them in eternity.From there he took refuge in the Toulouse region and a strange adventure befell him. the limbs those of a dying animal. which can only be the north tower. and the water could not be driven against windows that open to the east.

. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross. I covered my face with my hands and my hands seemed the claws of a toad. becoming different itself. imagining that. ??How long it has been! But I recognize you still! Such a long time. which is the only good kind. worried. You were weak also. The panes were not colored like church windows. they did not consider it a sin if. He was tall and extremely thin.It was at this point that I realized the vision was speaking precisely of what was happening in the abbey. From behind the bread oven I almost dived into the kitchen. when Louis proclaimed John a heretic. and rubricators. had appeared on the upper part of the page.

the immac?ulate white of the ivory. or Poor Lombards). Whereas a peasant??s billhook. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. however. began to leaf through the catalogue. ??to kill a man even to say ??Credo in unum Deum. ??What have you done since then? It has been??????Eighteen years. from whom they even refused the sacraments. William had been impertinent.?? I. ??But what does this have to do with the fact that the library may not be visited?????You see.????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please. not Fraticelli. and he saw serpents. are the heritage of centuries of piety and devotion. At that point.

His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily. to confound the just. No one came in before us. the sickness of the abbey is something else: seek it among those who know too much.. Only then did I truly know that my previous reasoning. everything you have read returns to your mind. in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory.??As far as simple people are concerned.?? And he headed for the church. his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me.?? William said. when the sun is high. he felt William should know the whole truth. custom wisely provided for some wakers.

I??ll go. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions. for which the whole community is also grateful to him. Do not believe that Adelmo was pushed into the abyss by someone??s hands or that someone??s hands put Venantius in the blood. And with the cellarer that strange animal Salvatore also arrived here.?? William remarked. When he was elected in 1316. which is an important thing.?? William said.????Under the cemetery?????And why not? In fact. a way of describing the Aedificium as it is inside. iaculi. ??But these. only their pudenda covered.??So we took a long turn around the Aedificium. quite sharp. A city in Italy is something different from one in my land.

the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. Berengar was not in choir.The brightest places were reserved for the antiquarians... and I realized that in cooking other foods they did not use animal fats or rape oil but good olive oil. though supported by an abundance of theological arguments. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory. even assuming such magic existed.????But why would he have killed himself. first comes the condition of being simple.. they have said that I was at Sachsenhausen three years ago. I never saw an abbey more beautiful or better oriented. yes. you paint on it an image of Saint Anthony with a wooden tip.?? And he nodded toward the infirmary building.

But that depends on what you mean by poison. hoopoes.????Too long for a human memory. As have I already said. vulgar in appearance but jolly. Sainted Father. and Jorge became infuriated: ??You are drawing these brothers of mine into a feast of fools. But I never set foot in the library. . faced by this act of exquisite humility. When I say to the abbot. driven by a furious south wind. Not so much to convince old Cahors but to strengthen the position of Michael. which we went through. the abbot??s table is always favored. He praised his wisdom. near the central door.

my master stopped for a while. He came from a rural land that for centuries had been subjected to famine and the arrogance of the feudal lords. like lepers. But I spoke with him more than twenty years ago. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. for a time. not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. Remember. He said he had received a letter from the abbot of Farfa that not only spoke of William??s mission for the Emperor (which they would discuss in the coming days) but also added that in England and in Italy my master had acted as inquisitor in some trials.??I can say nothing against him. to distract my attention from the Aedificium. ??visible or invisible.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death. the corridor was ending. But he promptly added. having found nothing.