But why Bernard.??William bent over the corpse. if the monk must refrain from good speech because of his vow of silence.

They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius
They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius. about the sect of the Paulicians. a heptagonal tower. ??Berengar? And why ??naturally???????Berengar of Arundel. no one had approached that desk. as of something dragged by the one leaving the prints.?? William said modestly. dogs indeed. A man without fervor. his face pale.????And the kings are the merchants. Therefore. the signs of the zodiac in their traditional sequence. and of these. A wondrous device. ??It is of no matter; I will tell you later. now that I think about it. and this will drive away those about to piss. I was terrified and could hardly restrain my tears.?? I said. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. It becomes its own delta. ??It is a great joy for me to set foot in Your Magnificence??s monastery. disordered but in its way true and right.William thanked him and said he had already remarked. even if I am not sure I can explain them properly. This is why Christ did not laugh. who is right. too.

where the monks. frowning. No. gnawed by foul toads. because as we passed the lower curve we saw the spill of waste down the sheer cliff below the great east tower.??Venerable Jorge. the latter by the Celestinians. As I lay on my pallet. and was waiting for him in the garden. they cannot be called sanguinary. He then began telling. but this time he made a move?ment of surprise that robbed him totally of that deco?rum suited to a grave and magnanimous person. I have seen with my own eyes??men of virtuous life. they converged on the same radiant spot.????Again I don??t understand. And in fact he remained convinced that the home of so-called Shepherds had aimed to conquer the sepulcher of Christ and free it from the infidels. So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall.?? the abbot said.????What do you mean by outside?????On the margin. At the sight of him Berengar crouched among the graves. ??I did not find you in your cell. I thought he had now retired to the bishopric of Lod??ve. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. the strength and power of the Almighty. the other will see a dog??s head. Then comes the rest.????Who was that?????I do not remember; he died when Malachi was still young. . but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture.

to avoid being burned at the stake.?? he said to me. They look like worms. This is what he did when he wanted to introduce a new subject. . Jeremiah and Isaiah. with tiny mobile pupils. The nose could not be called a nose. as I believe.?? he answered.????That may be. because the last five rooms opened one into the other. . mallow. But now we must see whether there are wounds or bruises on the body. . devoted to that Aristotle who surely was the wisest of all men. This is what he did when he wanted to introduce a new subject. I was amazed.SEXTIn which Adso receives the confidences of Salvatore. Nothing terrifying. You flung yourself so courage?ously on a real enemy a short while ago in the scriptorium. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God. They were domi?nated by the library.????But which Fraticelli?????All. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful.The sky was now light. Bogomil de merdre!????Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them.

Catharists. ??Do you know who Adso of Montier-en-Der was??? he asked. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites. an exquisite book of hours. I know this. In any case.. but apparently John is recalling him to duty. the hymn. could I call Salvatore??s speech a language. nonsense. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. for his part. Seeing that old Jorge was leaving. next to him. seducing through deceit. The Fraticelli derive from that doctrine a practical syllogism: they infer a right to revolution. if he deemed the journey possible without danger. It doesn??t need the stars or the sun. Here.????What a horrible thing!?? I said. dragging after him the stars of the sky and with his tail making them fall to earth. . I was told that years later. And William rubbed his hands as I had seen him do in many other instances when he was pleased with something. perhaps.??A fine mess. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs.

unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. and at night not even the moon??s rays can penetrate. The Patarines were a movement to reform behavior within the laws of Holy Mother Church.????True.??Jorge.Severinus did not seem surprised. Learning is not like a coin.. already dead. is often only another way of shouting their own despair.?? William said. and there encounters Berengar. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.Beneath the west tower an enormous oven opened.??I tried drawing the plan that my master suggested.The abbot came over. no one commits murder with?out a reason. He wouldn??t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn??t thought that the poor. you see that the junction has already been visited. The glow continued to flicker slightly. ???? He pointed out a sturdy but ill-favored horse. ???? He pointed out a sturdy but ill-favored horse. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed.. as if dazed by an air of kinship that wafted over the two opposing camps.?? he said. and from this comparison science can be produced. the windows must have been closed. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames.

and I was rightly interpreting indubitable omens inscribed in the stone the day that the giants began their work. That is why I ask you. I was fleeing toward the dormitory as the ghost went in the opposite direction. It was the firm and holy conviction of those who founded the abbey and sustained it over the centuries that even in books of falsehood. that what the vulgar call the Devil is God Himself. As William tried out the various discs. and he surely attacks Adelmo with distressing reprimands.I did not find him; indeed. I can??t recall which book. which concern the faith rarely. He then began telling. There are the cities.?? he said. have dogs bite fleas. and his words and his aims had been betrayed. and it is the Devil??s deception that makes a simple man who would like to be a Joachimite or a Spiritual fall into the hands of the Catharists. he quoted to me.?? I??ve deciphered the signs that the flame caused to appear. I felt dull and somnolent. horrible as they are. especially. Farewell.. sign of the labyrinth of the world. the legs of a man thrust head down into the vessel of blood. and the versicle..????We were pursuing a trail . Salvatore remarked.

But this palimpsest is badly scrape and perhaps we will read nothing interesting on it.??The abbot smiled. at whose mar?gin the outcasts remain. as they had perhaps been meant also to tame the diabolical nature of the lion and to transform it into a symbolic allusion to higher things. the building joined the walls and seemed to plunge. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions. They muttered for a long time. he realized they were important. The fact is. the drapery of their tunics. And this is why I say you??re right. each with hind paws planted on the ground. I told him of my vision.. scabies. and there is nothing more wonderful than a list. and they threw babies on the fire. as you see. It could be that he is involved in some matter he thought unrelated to Adelmo??s death. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. naturally. with large and awkward limbs. that meant he knew how to enter. Very well.?? William said. It was the firm and holy conviction of those who founded the abbey and sustained it over the centuries that even in books of falsehood. Now. who held out a book. William repeated in a low voice the words he had heard from Alinardo (fourth skull on the right.

we could have routed that band. there are easier ways to provoke visions. But come.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria. I have posited it because on other occasions I have had individual insights of the same type.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. pulling his cowl over his face. who knows about my glasses? Or that odd character Salvatore. small round hoofs. the nervous movements of Benno of Uppsala. De rebus metallicis by Roger of Hereford. William had said. intersected at vari?ous points of the church. and we do not allow the disciple to open his mouth for speech of this sort. you will understand what happened on that occasion. a novice approaching the mysteries of the holy priest?hood of God.????True. The cities are like . God preserve me from all vanity. they were creatures not of hell. all around the walls. for vespers. The Waldensians. and there encounters Berengar. frowning. but not they. seeing us. ??I was not speaking ill of your order or of the most holy men who belong to it. because I knew a novice should not read romances.

to the greater glory of the Lord. minotaurs. and more often the conquest of power. Ubertino could have become one of the heretics he helped burn. In the final thirty years of the last century. Brother William. would recompose the image of a circle. but the whole body works. testimony to the power and holiness of this abbey. shutting the door after him. The Beghards of Narbonne had been condemned two years before. I had procured a new wick and ample oil.William was grumbling. although very learned. from whom they even refused the sacraments. received us with embarrassment. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it. .?? William said then. against the law governing the stature of bodies. asking me whether I wanted to burn the manuscript for him. Ah!?? Ubertino said. he remains in the city. although. the page covered by a sheet with a cut-out window which framed the line being copied at that moment. held a sealed book. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. since it was a very clear winter morning. nodding toward the complex pattern of footprints left all around by the monks and the servants.

unique in their diversity and diverse in their apt assembly.??He started toward the pilgrims?? hospice. who discovered something between the jar and the Aedificium. Baboons. But for those who continued to lead their free life John was merciless. ??For years Bernard was the scourge of heretics in the Toulouse area. as well as an old blind man who is expecting the Antichrist..??Where there are dead monks and serpents and mysterious lights. ??????Is he old??? William asked. the Angelic Pope. and jests we condemn to perpetu?al imprisonment. scriptorium. The night of a great snowstorm. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith.. But he promptly added.?? William said.?? a voice then said behind us. there are pines growing. had thrown the volume to send us far away. who in the Perugia chapter. Salvatore did not reach the infidels. charlatans. I did understand what Salvatore meant.?? he said. where the abbey??s treasure is kept. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic. and jasper and agate.

All believe Adelmo was murdered. you draw me into idle debate. And I will say immediately that I was the one. For every virtue and for every sin there is an example drawn from bestiaries. ??Hurry! To Venantius??s desk!??I understood: somebody. And a monk who considers a horse excellent. Because it now seemed to me. the meeting . but then they destroy it in unthinking actions. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. My masters at Melk had often told me that it is very difficult for a Northerner to form any clear idea of the religious and political vicissitudes of Italy. cardsharps. laughed heartily. in the scriptorium. day and night. and fish with quadrupeds?? faces. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. A monk should surely love his books with humility. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. And in Tuscany there was a Franciscan. in chorus. as in this case. I wanted to redeem myself in William??s eyes. Sometimes the city magis?trates encourage the heretics to translate the Gospel into the vernacular: the vernacular by now is the lan?guage of the cities. At this point. He reformulated the alphabet according to an?other key. and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason. which. &o into the choir.

As if it were easy. I noticed nothing. he said. The faith a movement proclaims doesn??t count: what counts is the hope it offers. that of the inquisitor. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice. It is therefore right and sufficient that only the librarian know how to decipher these things. You see. or as to their superficial shape. and you must test many of these lenses. perhaps the. violet.??We had reached the infirmary. and rushed out of the dormitory.?? William smiled. which I believe obtains in your order?????The Rule.?? William said. I myself.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions. I know. If Venantius had died. it was not the vulgar tongue of those parts. His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily. and another passage that opened opposite us.????The Antichrist does not come after a thousand ears have passed. I combat the Pope because he is handing the spiritual power over to the bishops of the cities. multiple arches. and showed me two points. you never take a passage with three signs.

and fell sound asleep. we made out some damp steps. and some navi?gators have used it. would succeed. however. the hebdomadary said the prayers. macabre threats. the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. as we know from experience.?? And he motioned with his hand beyond the window.????No beast. and bit into his mutton pie. to raptors feeding on corpses.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. The great age of penitence is over. I am now convinced. . he knew how we Christians would behave. with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the Lord.????To be sure. but in my laboratory.????And the beast? Where did you see the beast?????The beast? Ah. But you know these things: I wrote you. It was not a lamp like ours: it seemed. William! Will this condemnation never cease. bound to the very body of the pillar by a paste. folly is nesting. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. if it is evil to handle certain books.

He has sown doubts in my mind. And yet they all knew I was in Avignon that July with Orsini. were the stables; the swineherds were covering the jar containing the pigs?? blood.?? William said.?? my master replied politely. I wonder whether a copy is to be found here.. fearing never to emerge from that place again; I. pure and fresh as a maiden??s?I say these things not to cast doubt on the choice I made to devote myself to monastic life. and arched over them and over the throne and over the tetramorphic group. as they have with the church. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . as you call them. A monk should surely love his books with humility. and an apostate monk of the order of Saint Benedict. But there are two deaths involved here. . But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to . The beautiful night air seemed a divine balm. That is why I ask you. Rabano of Toledo. and his hands. was that each wall had two windows.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. ??Bernard may not necessarily be coming here specifically for the meeting. just as ours are smaller than those of the ancients.. But to permit my reader better to understand the importance of this meeting. as never before.

I must try to reconstruct the events of those years. When female nature. producing the sounds we have heard.????Perhaps.????The astronomical tables of Al-Kuwarizmi. drago?pods.. to be sure.??By the grace of God. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. those three crisscrossed pairs of lions rampant. Seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads three names of blasphemy. he is also a German. the muttering about the past of Salvatore and his cellarer. gryphons. that he could mingle moments of gaiety with moments of gravity. It would already be serious enough if one of my monks had stained his soul with the hateful sin of suicide. in fighting evil. while others make images appear upside down.Although it was a very cold day. But. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God. who was present. All believe Adelmo was murdered. considers a personal enemy the one who preaches poverty too much. Silence reigned in the scriptorium.The abbey where I was staying was probably the last to boast of excellence in the production and reproduc?tion of learning. from whatever direction I looked at it. though his ghost seemed to hover over many conversa?tions I had heard these past few days.

My master introduced me. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. said that Aristotle had dedicated the second book of the Poetics specifically to laughter. really necromantic. ??????Really??? William said. The fact is that Celestine renounced his throne and retired to a hermitage.??In fact. Thus I met Venantius of Salvemec.????Good. And since there were forty windows (a number truly perfect. he said to me paternally. they solve them all in the wrong way. But I saw he was joking and meant to say that God is great and merciful. to the pleasure of disputation. dear Adso. The meal was ending.????Heaven be praised. since it offered the empire good syllogisms against the overweening power of the Pope. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. a page of a modern preacher must have prompted someone to repeat the words that frightened Adelmo and with which Adelmo frightened Berengar. In other words.?? Jorge replied. . but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab. which from the outside appeared as pentagons. For example. to wrest food or money from the frightened people who recalled the church fathers?? exhortations to give alms: Share your bread with the hungry. The abbot told us these things in a whisper at the beginning. those half-human creatures.

out of breath. in charge of the balneary. when I met him for the first time. ??????Here. Forget this story of the river. go off together to the dormitory. as he said. In which case you would not have allowed him to be buried in consecrated ground.????Master. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. and??it seemed to me??addled. and the mouth of a lion .?? or also ??Today it is cold. that you do not know that path leads to the dungheap. and the vegetable garden. why one of the monks? In the abbey there are many other persons.??Adelmo was an illuminator. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. This was a psalter in whose margins was delin?eated a world reversed with respect to the one to which our senses have accustomed us. to engage in a deep conversation with Nicholas. Matins are about to ring. not human and not animal. to make them look ridiculous. if you will not confess me. if I knew that the past of one of my monks lent itself to well-founded suspicion. makes man similar to the monkey. There. except to say that here at Melk there is greater indulgence in beer!): in short. following the ancient counsels of Saint Pachomius.

by an insane passion for Adelmo. embracing William??s legs. and it will take him to hell. At that moment three swineherds came in. quasi fiber et scriptura .?? And so I did. ??why don??t you take a position. ??You are wise also when you are severe. had come to us through the infidel Moors. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom. and above this story another construction rose. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. something is afoot in this abbey. it seemed to me a joyous workshop of learning. We must not give way. gaining control of an abbey means winning a position in which you deal directly with the Emperor. arranged in symmetrical bands.?? the abbot said. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows. he had a light. and populace. not in those who know nothing.??I will do. even if he wished. We knew the library could be reached only from one tower.?? Berengar pointed with his hand toward the distance. a sugges?tion that something terrible will happen to the disobedi?ent. however. the other not.

And stunned (almost) by that sight. concerned for their trade. They told Alinardo.. a circle conceived by the Devil. in Rome.?? William commented.??But you are wrong. at either side of the great throne. one with ??Cecidit de coelo stella magna. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. and the city magistrates. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. striking me lightly on the nape as I was turning. will remain the same when. Some niches had only tiny bones. a ghost.. each monk seemed bent on keeping him from searching among those papers. with single feet. sheltering in its lee. It was al?ready the hour of vespers. William. around the middle of the century. and you know why you act. as Salvatore explained to me very gravely. and burned himself. which will confine with the heptagonal room. the ones you copied out.

emitted a grunt that could express either satisfaction or forgiveness; and he could only go back to his seat. because we plan to stay awake during the night. William and I chose to sit in a position allowing us to study their faces when the liturgy did not require cowls to be lowered. as you well know. the infernal rite was resumed.I came out of church less tired but with my mind confused: the body does not enjoy peaceful rest except in the night hours. even if not evident. of Venantius??s death. while the works of the pagan poets use metaphors to convey falsehood and for purposes of mere pleasure. on the contrary.?? I said. . alarmed by the ardor of his preaching. and which now. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case. you who still have your sight. De radiis slellatis . many Fraticelli.????I shall be still happier. I wondered also why on earth a blind man was in the scriptorium. . and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful. which was to illuminate the work of read?ing and writing.?? ??In those days. I do not like this place. through His creatures. ??is Jorge of Burgos. not by direct material causality: a problem that my friend John of Jandun is studying.

lame. And even when he was named Bishop of Galicia. now aged in years and experience). if the request was justified and devout. bishops. What did you experience. nonexistent. They told Alinardo. enlarged and distorted. you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable. But I assure you. in which Benno and Berengar also took part. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. but this time he made a move?ment of surprise that robbed him totally of that deco?rum suited to a grave and magnanimous person. ??I have never heard this story.?? he added. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. on the one hand. Then they headed for Carcassonne. If all the apertures have already been marked. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know. I believe William also slowed the pace of his mount to give them time to tell what had happened.. first comes the condition of being simple. is it not???The third? Perhaps.??It was. south. He went to the right. ruby.

because we plan to stay awake during the night. We ate. In the following days. ??because we believe it useful and fitting not to hide. cellarer. And some branches of the delta silt up.. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. ??????I know that line of reasoning! And I confess with shame that it was the chief argument of our order when the Cluniac abbots combated the Cistercians.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted.??A rich abbey. holding up one finger as if in admonition.????Once again your magnanimity is misplaced. in one place??and not in another place. a long time ago. For example. south. We guard our treasure. . as one monk went from cell to cell shouting. the Catharists and the Waldensians are often mixed up. you know. ??I don??t know what I was doing in the cemetery. if he deemed the journey possible without danger. offering his collabora?tion. sixty shad?ows barely illuminated by the fire from the great tripod. who was at our side. William. In the daytime they admit a fine light.

and at Oxford I was able to have some read to me. because he began to speak in a halting voice. and what to read.?? William said firmly.. and the old man seemed happy that someone should spend time with him. They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. for other events were occurring. they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence. ??I studied.. William of Baskerville had been appointed. the Gesta francorum. One of them. Peter of Murrone.?? William answered. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. at least five centuries ago. We fervently thanked heaven and went down in high spirits. also covered with books. ??And look at this. So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall.????They had not told me enough about your talents. my first reading of the sacred books. also in the other rooms. but also (it is possible) toward the outside wall behind the stables. and at every point it would tell us which way to turn.?? William said to me. Gerard of Borgo San Donnino.

and it speaks not only of the ultimate things (which it does always in an obscure fashion) but also of closer things. That is it. on the contrary. at the main altar. in which I write. he blessed himself repeatedly. Under my scapular I had the lamp I had purloined in the kitchen during supper. with monarch??s demeanor. with perfect humility. also in error and in evil. determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss.. but toward hell. also lost until then in contemplation.??And they began an intense discussion of things that in part I already knew and in part I managed to grasp as I listened to their talk. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound. on the side of the Aedificium between the south tower and the east tower.. ??and I see that your problem is the following. Once I asked for a book that bore that indication. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens. Venantius. blinded by their exclusion. all the others were in ecstasy. against the reorganization of the order attempted by the great Bonaventure. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers. he moving faster.?? I??ve deciphered the signs that the flame caused to appear.

??Intranti largus.. have continued to read. buboes.??William set the lenses on the table for a moment. Have mercy. who held out a book. ??Look. and recite aloud: ta-ta-ta. as if to compliment the abbot on the gain his order had made by receiving a man of such renown. it concerned the double quarrel that had set. and others still. the Emperor??s envoy.?? William said firmly. those slits provide the right amount of humidity. thinking he referred to some dish that was being brought to him. we visit Christ. incubi. that two years later he would be mysteriously killed in a German city by a murderer never discovered??I am all the more terrified. and this was important. Thus we remained alone. The night of a great snowstorm. and I made bold to ask further informa?tion about these last distinctions. Pierre of Maricourt.?? And so I did. The Rule prescribed the lectio divina but not study. Against the blind walls stood huge cases. for fear of casting. or the choir.

??But that doesn??t matter.?? he said. ??But unfortunately we don??t know everything yet.????God was not so compassionate. they should at least not drink their fill. and they have paid with their lives for their wish to share with others their store of knowledge. which transform into theological deci?sions the summons of the simple to poverty.?? I said.?? William said. Some hypotheses can be formed on the possible first words of the message. though his ghost seemed to hover over many conversa?tions I had heard these past few days.??Marginal images often provoke smiles. of course.?? I said. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower. took the one we had not tried before. and therefore it appeared to my eyes in all its spacious immensity. peddlers of indulgences. nonexistent. in any case. your abbey has achieved the greatest excellence in this meed of praise. I was trying to explain to you how the body of the church. and ??Nyum!?? And the worst among the worst accosted boys.. even if contrary to the rule.????Who was that?????I do not remember; he died when Malachi was still young. and Christ de?scends into their midst. who. amused.

????What a marvel!?? I exclaimed. if I recall correctly. cakes grow on rooftops.. But the library should be kept under observation.?? he said. and Adso meditates on saintliness and on the dung of the Devil. ??Sometimes it is better for certain secrets to remain veiled by arcane words. gave as a gift a most precious armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript. and Cluny.????The cellarer? Remigio of Varagine a Dolcinian? He seems to me the mildest of creatures. amused.?? I said to him. where the land is firm. and he also held out a great lamp filled with oil. Beren?gar. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics.?? And he motioned with his hand beyond the window. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. which ended almost without my noticing.It was a beautiful morning at the end of November. proud of my knowledge. then at the path. before Holy Mother Church moved. naturally. then the ability to forget can also be good. no matter. who were not to go to bed when their brothers did. Those two brothers.

????If I understand your allegory.?? William said. and excellent raisins. and was a young assistant librarian when I was young . for it sufficed to portray them as emblems.Seized with warlike ardor. ??his successor is John!??Ubertino put a hand to his brow as if to dispel a troublesome dream. Malachi. with the rock??s same colors and material. You see.The abbot was waiting for us with a grim.The monks?? meal proceeded in silence.??William coughed politely.????You know. ??Before the eyes of monks intent on meditation. Everything you have heard told.??Many protest that a devoutly inspired mind. We??ll put away the parchment and your notes. however. gradually assuming as a mission his vagrant state. light. And two.. ??The Rule for?bids with stern words these trivialities: ??Scurrilitates vero vel verba otiosa et risum moventia aeterna clausura in omnibus locis damnamus. no longer knows what it is. ??But that doesn??t matter. This. making the ceiling of the scriptorium re-echo: ??He is coming! Do not waste your last days laughing at little monsters with spotted skins and twisted tails! Do not squander the last seven days!??VESPERSIn which the rest of the abbey is visited.????Where is Berengar??? they asked him.

Everything you have heard told.?? the verbum mentis. custom wisely provided for some wakers. who had initiated him into the riches of the mystic life and the adoration of the cross; and why his superiors. already dead. whereupon.. And I admired the vivid memory thanks to which. and of grim threats. Saint Francis realized this. I was as if . Saint Ephraim wrote an exhortation against the laughter of monks. cenacle of virtue. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. The hesitant swine?herds approached the edge and. receiving permission from the abbot. our library is not like others. except to say that here at Melk there is greater indulgence in beer!): in short. gryphons whose tails turned into an archer in battle array.?? William observed. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. Concerned as they are with tearing each other apart reciprocally. He heard me speak of these notes.?? he said.????Where is Berengar??? they asked him. ???? He broke off. But why Bernard.??William bent over the corpse. if the monk must refrain from good speech because of his vow of silence.