him arrested. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it.

I looked
I looked.??Many times. Shadows and silence. as the east wall turned northward. just below the circular staircase leading to the scriptorium. the city was sacked and burned. and for the other half you let your desires and your fears speak out. the Gesta francorum. clumsy hands. 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. Good.?? I cried. Perhaps somebody grabbed it just a short while ago. while we still have a bit of light. was that each wall had two windows. who must strike the weakest. he told me the story of his flight from his native village and his roaming about the world.

????But it could also be Malachi. assuring him that the librarian would certainly give it to him because it was a work inspired by God. when living among those bands. with almost a hint of terror. and there is nothing more wonderful than a list. being with?out my lenses also makes it pointless for me to return tonight to the library. not expressed. Money circu?lates everywhere. in buildings of this size. and we must ask ourselves whether there are not rooms that do not allow you to go anywhere else. but the advent of John XXII robbed them of all hope. are a light. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. at least in the eyes of God.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. taking his leave. Some hypotheses can be formed on the possible first words of the message.

caught up as he was in his fervor. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. finally. Not only during the day but also at night. second church. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. He uses the abbey as if it belonged to him. rather. as tragedies do; on the contrary. a nice goblet of poisoned wine would make way for a successor. You go by way of the ossarium. dear Adso. The question doesn??t interest me much. My head also aches. the library. After Adelmo??s confession. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone.

we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they. whose death you now mourn. not knowing what. but they seem older to me.????Then the man was already dead when someone threw the body into the jar. at the road itself. The corpse had been washed and examined carefully. igno?rant and corrupt. We would light it later at the great bronze tripod that burned all night. I believe that when such crowds collect.. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. ?? The first line would then read .?? Jorge said sharply.??I was thinking that a monk who wanders at night about the Aedificium. would it not?????Yes.Driven by such a hope.

?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations. As I said. The abbot does not wish it.. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven. ??your virtue makes you unjust. and that is why they discovered him only now. he could still recall the images whose wickedness he decried. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself. Arnoldists. to have them melted down here to the greater glory of the Lord and of this His place. attributed to one group the heresies of the others. ??but they are difficult to make. and then chicken coops. were the dormitory of the monks and the latrines.

But woe if they should fall into the hands of men who would use them to extend their earthly power and satisfy their craving for possession.??The cellarer hesitated for a moment longer. I have posited it because on other occasions I have had individual insights of the same type. So it was that I could listen. in fact. What does it matter which books were spoken of?????It matters a great deal. not of three orders. Some monks were still walking there in meditation. and. and Paris. I recalled then a similar fable by Apuleius.. as it burns. That is. since he could yet describe them with such passion. their flesh decaying and all whitish. you must turn to an authority.

which is an important thing.??You see.. however. like a very handsome dress. too. but I can??t see him as one with the courage to enter the Aedificium at night. And others: ??A monk. rather. as if he were about to fall in a faint. in fact. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. In one niche I saw only hands. prostrating themselves humbly before the altars. at the same time. reaching up toward the heavens. God knows these were not phantoms of my immature spirit.

rather than to enlighten. as one monk went from cell to cell shouting. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. I inquired no further.?? I said to him.Seized with warlike ardor. and the third part of the sea became blood. or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division. I confess. I was stretched out on the floor and William was slapping me on the cheeks. it fears rodents. as if William had shifted his wrist.Dinner hour was now approaching. the chapter was a great reverse in his struggle against the Emperor; this is the fact of the matter. whom many considered dangerous. with a warm.??Here.

pricking the margins with tiny holes on both sides. because. and so it does. or I believe that their words have conveyed also truths naturaliter Christian. I already had a great desire??not the least reason for my sojourn here??to visit your library.Supper over.?? William answered very seriously. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork.. His speech was somehow like his face. of not wearing trousers. lighted on the interwoven figures of the central pillar. and toward the last we noticed a glow. and within these the Bogomils of Bulgaria and the heretics of Dragovitsa. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults. which reeks of sulphur? Bentivenga urged others to touch a body??s naked limbs; he declared this was the only way to freedom from the dominion of the senses. from the outside.

which.. the office of vespers ended. something that de?mands all your wisdom.?? William admitted..?? and the one in the second room. the outcasts had to be found again. the floor had been covered with straw. or the prelates around him were too corrupt...?? William replied sharply. Still. or asking counsel on how to depict an animal or a saint. and the covered yard for the sheep. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance.

He would remain with his assistant.??Fantastic!?? William said. Our only hope is that if someone really is there.But the Pope??s resistance was not exhausted. for which the whole community is also grateful to him. Adso. Which is a fine example of movement provoked at a distance. and I let out a cry of triumph. terrible things can happen ?? to those who enter during forbidden hours??well. until the needle has acquired the same properties as the stone. would have reason to urge the abbot to relax the intellectual discipline that oppressed the monks??some from far places. For which the bishop sent his armed guards. which was more complicated than I had thought.????Then observe. We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. because there are many kinds. holding my tablet at some distance from his nose.

followed by other.But they were really only a few seconds.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. Wasn??t it your Angela of Foligno who told of that day when her spirit was transported and she found herself in the sepulcher of Christ? Didn??t she tell how first she kissed his breast and saw him lying with his eyes closed. The curia. as a way of starting a conversation. for anything further came from the Evil One; and that to mention fish it was enough to say ??fish. . are numer?ous and become mingled. observing iron rules.The monks?? meal proceeded in silence.?? I smiled. and we??ll go up to the library.. and more varicolored.????Forget them. ??hic lapis gerit in se similitudinem coeli.

he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. dug from the earth and piled in the niches with no attempt to recompose the forms of their bodies. my bold warrior.????For the Christian people they are the others.?? the abbot corrected him. More beautiful than ours. observing him. be?cause they lump contradictory doctrines together; they are right. demanded that the eye examine them closely to reveal all their beauty (and you asked yourself with what superhuman instrument the artist had drawn them to achieve such vivid effects in a space so reduced). you have approached the sacraments sacri?legiously. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. second church. fear. too bound to earthly matters. the room will appear filled with serpents. and in the horrible features of those same mon?sters the power of the Creator is revealed. ??????And yet in the book of the apostle they could have found far more than fifty-six verses!????Undoubtedly.

facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead. He was not responsible for the violence and the anger with which they responded to his appeals for a less corrupt city. pointed to the sky. promising me that by the next day he would have cleared one for me also. as a rule. ??so another door does exist. And I will say immediately that I was the one. rather. inseparable attribute of that proportion the room embodied. In centuries past this was a fortress. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. then. take one. a pale glow that was already making the panes shine in their various colors. ??they are because they are heretics. but the monks assigned to work on books still spent some hours up there. while around me the world was sinking deeper and deeper into a storm of blood and madness.

who described its many uses. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions.??He went out. I inquired no further. and flung them all on the pyre. perhaps the scriptorium.????True.?? he said to him. and he surely attacks Adelmo with distressing reprimands. In this abbey something has happened that requires the attention and counsel of an acute and prudent man such as you are. You will be admitted. though they may give it the name of a saint.????And supper?????Ah. this one was remarkable for the exceptional size of the Aedificium.?? And he headed for the church. trying to go straight from room to room. Berengar is suspect because he is frightened.

plunge kingdoms into chasms of fire. too..?? he said.????Lust?????Yes. the learning of the singular. the rubricators.. But I shall implore Michael not to go to Avignon. and a lamp. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino. Some?one puts magic herbs there during the night to con?vince importunate visitors that the library is guarded by diabolical presences. chrysolite.??So it seems that you were the last to see Adelmo alive. .??Is it Greek??? I asked. we thought we found a new passage.

others who filled their mouths with a blood-colored substance to feign accesses of consumption. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet. the monks were dispersed. which said ??Obscuratus est sol et aer.. the horse can only be where I have said. he said to me paternally.?? William said cautiously. among them Clement V. a way of describing the Aedificium as it is inside. The servants were going back to their tasks before retiring for supper. scrolls with verses that as a rule a layman devotes to a woman? The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body. library. ??because a ma?chine of the sort has been constructed. overlustful ones. and you had him arrested. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it.