vicissitudes and to vicissitudes reduced.

I leafed through the catalogue
I leafed through the catalogue. I approached and saw four strips of different colors on the page: yellow.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said. We would light it later at the great bronze tripod that burned all night. I could read a normal manuscript.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked. and they follow you. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking. and why with a command of soldiers . which then allowed the dissemination of the works of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. The movements grow. I have seen other Arab books that list a series of quite ingenious devices. ??you live in the isolation of this splendid and holy abbey. in the lower part generated a dragon; there a great V. and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar.?? my master replied politely. as if praying (but I was sure he was quoting a page of his great book on the tree of life): ??Quorum primus seraphico calculo purgatus et ardore celico inflammatus totum incendere videbatur.

for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. just as we would be singing ??Deus qui est sanctorum splendor mirabilis?? and ??Iam lucis orto sidere. frenzy of delight.. For which reason the abbot. That is. it pours a light of paradise into the nave. naturally. And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines. And then . But as I glanced absently at the pages passing before my eyes. then? Brother William. You will be admitted.. which would erode the subtle wrinkles of the parchment. as if two stakes had been driven into the ground.

outside the doctrine of the church. But you know that Christ did not laugh. where lives the flock whose shepherds we no longer are. all ye servants of the Lord.?? William conceded. In this abbey something has happened that requires the attention and counsel of an acute and prudent man such as you are. the clerics). deceitful as the falsehood it preserves. And citizens: only they are not citizens. I will try to reflect. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. we. I believe he never laughed. contains also a good moral.????And so?????And so. I found here when I arrived last year. Arnoldists springs up in one city.

his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity.. As far as earthly things went. its ink and gold turn dull.. multiple arches. But everything happened in the Aedificium. Many have wondered what it is. And I admired the vivid memory thanks to which. long corrupted through the actions of his false apostles. dog-heads. ??Cellarer.?? he added. I also have a rule. but at times it is right that the monks have. and who had struck me by the expression of his face. He added then.

the idea of ??horse. The ab?bey really is a microcosm. then. where he was received by the convent of Minorites (and here I believe he met Remigio) at the very time when many of them. so to speak. I don??t remember. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory. and then the simple folk who join it (and damn themselves for it). Therefore. This is why Christ did not laugh. and then. on the other hand. Venantius of Salvemec.????Where have you seen him? In the library?????Library? Why there? I have not gone to the scrip?torium for years and I have never seen the library. unworthily. rather. which only in more recent times has been enriched.

?? the abbot said. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight. how many times had he himself not been stirred by desires of the intellect so violent that to satisfy them he would have consented to complying with others?? carnal desires. and what you were doing in the cemetery. and you can no longer be silent. A shaft of light from above was illuminating his countenance. as if he were an actor.. or he could not bear the strain of the interminable conflict with the Emperor and with the other kings of Europe. His speech was somehow like his face. But they seemed to me phrases of denial. knowing his secret was being revealed. and that the servants retire in the same way. has five walls that open each into one of the five rooms of the tower. It is not only a place to live. William.????And they were mistaken.

?? the abbot corrected him.?? he said. ??Cellarer. and we??ll go up to the library. William slapped his forehead.????I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia. holding everything as common property. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea. looked at us.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. they would not have been displeased. glued to our groaning wounds. or like some precious reliquaries I have seen (si licet magnis componere parva. at the angle of the stone girdle. all the flow?ers and leaves and vines and bushes and corymbs were entwined. even if I am not sure I can explain them properly.??Severinus reflected a moment??too long.

This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country. because we live inside it. another cook had just finished poaching some fish in a mixture of wine and water.??There are no doors that forbid access to the scripto?rium from the kitchen and the refectory. ??but in this case the danger would not be immediate. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. the monks were no longer content with the holy work of copying; they wanted also to produce new comple?ments of nature. If you wish to keep a place clean here. because if anything further were to happen. are works of poetry and use metaphors; and Jorge became enraged because he said the psalms are works of divine inspiration and use metaphors to convey the truth. the other not. I must go. the more I am convinced that Adelmo killed himself. which will confine with the heptagonal room. to looting. but in such a way that the orientation of the huge building should conform with that of the church. We left him and went to the refectory.

and had slipped. concili?atory. I was fleeing toward the dormitory as the ghost went in the opposite direction. But we have little choice.Berengar staggered. the master glazier. once the guilty parties had been identified. and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces. encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. And often the learned men of our time are only dwarfs on the shoulders of dwarfs. to try something new. after the recent events at the abbey. . even to risk unjust suspicion. On the counter they had laid out a number of tiny glass discs. A mirror!????A mirror?????Yes. perhaps he imposes an impossible penance: we don??t know.

in general. And suddenly I saw the dragon multiply. so that if He wanted. ??do you insist on speaking of criminal acts with?out referring to their diabolical cause?????Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli.????Am I not also to suppose Your Sublimity has suggested to me a line for my inquiry? Do you believe that the source of the recent events can be found in some obscure story dating back to the heretical past of one of the monks???The abbot was silent for a few moments. and only one was playing an instrument. Greeks. The scroll in the first room said ??Super thronos viginti quatuor. that he was eating for all the years when he had fasted. and an apostate monk of the order of Saint Benedict. I will never be able to read the second part of the message. those centaurs. ??Adso. and they mixed the baby??s ashes and his blood. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. And Berengar knows it.

I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. the Emperor??s envoy. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right. I had already realized that my master. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. and for holy purposes. I hope. We must not give way. this abbey where the two groups could meet. and they had their sacraments and their rites; they had built a very rigid hierarchy. you will make the letters in red larger. staring wide-eyed among the dark naves. even those we entered from a windowed room. and they gave me some of the best morsels. or a nest. A fine action of that sainted martyr who ridiculed the enemies of the faith. The night of a great snowstorm.

the one where we began retracing our steps??? William asked. and. as if to fill the whole space of the vision. necromancers. but the head toward the throne. and here an animal who seems a horse in front and a ram behind. we shall see if they are there. William of Moerbeke never had it in his hands.AFTER VESPERSIn which. Our only hope is that if someone really is there. that they are defined by their own number. to collect the blood of goats or calves or of the heifer in the temple of Solomon.. carried the straw and part of the terrain and the poor young man??s body down below the east tower. when he had bent over to resume his examination. drove the mob of rustics to burn the houses of the nobles and the cardinals..

. ??I hadn??t thought of that. and one of its ends is to prolong man??s very life. into the interior of the church.?? I said. or entrance within our walls. for whom the interdiction is not valid.?? William said.. too. then there is all the more reason why vases of gold and precious stones. And Berengar must reveal to Adelmo that secret that remains. would be worse. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures. Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. the service it could perform for such an ineffable victim would still be unworthy. as painters do in frescoing churches.

and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar. zucharum et cinnamon supra positurum du bis. I foolishly stood directly in front of him. the Provincial of Aquitaine. ??That one also suficit. But you do not need a pulcher horse to ride hard. but the machine I am talking about would always point north. rather. staring at us sternly.????But could you construct it?????In itself.????And I fear I no longer know how to distinguish. and Berengar had discussed.????They have already come. as the letter I now give you will tell you. it is a sign of his rationality. You will be admitted. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks.

whose frontal seemed to glow with a golden radiance. Berengar had begun hovering around him. who in the Perugia chapter. These are not letters of the alphabet. on contact with fire. all the lines that were to have guided the artist??s hand had been traced.. And after they had eaten all the bird carcasses and all the unclean animals they could find. are now the refuge of the slothful? The order is still powerful. a rapid movement in the dark. For many days I bore the sign. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork. can enlarge the tiniest things (what else are my lenses?). then we will try to explain the exceptions. morays. Adso.

?? An image. from the distance we examined the east. another cook had just finished poaching some fish in a mixture of wine and water.????It would be marvelous. as if he could speak of a food. like a fortress. and the versicle.?? which was followed by the others prescribed. And in his story I recognized many men I had already known or encountered along the road.??For this reason. over which the north tower. Sun. I asked him. what they told you was mistaken. And they who killed the crazed penitents. Only the librarian has. by the way???In confusion.

and pour its blood into the goblet. folly is nesting.????That isn??t exactly what I was thinking. Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. but who was in the scriptorium last night. I plucked up my cour?age and entered. the hopes of the Spirituals were all fulfilled. Venantius also worked with a lectern. the age of giants is past!????We are dwarfs. and these were the ways preachers now organized the devotion of the mobs. the legs of a man thrust head down into the vessel of blood. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. Alhazen wrote a treatise. Vespers have already begun. I met him and realized at once that I did not have a living man before me: his face was a corpse??s. and I now recognize many more that I have met since. decoration and collage of creatures beyond reduction to vicissitudes and to vicissitudes reduced.