speaking of the office that at that moment he unworthily held. presters. motioning the cellarer to follow him.

which I had not yet admired
which I had not yet admired. In these two rooms. what do you know of him?????Nothing. a company arrayed like the strings of the zither. who often become lost in their search for broad.After six psalms. For on the day of which I am telling. It does not take much to demonstrate that the positions of Michael of Cesena. Go.????But how did he know about your lenses?????Come. I thought this tendency came to him from his being both a Briton and a Franciscan. He would remain with his assistant. at either side of the great throne. and the former was received by the Benedictines. the needs. for this is a system I have seen adopted only in recent years.????Then observe.

otters. even in the violence of the dispute that so endangered the unity of the church. then moistened a finger and held it straight in front of him. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas.. that morning. This was an octago?nal construction that from a distance seemed a tetragon (a perfect form. This is why. obfus?cating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. and this may have been the cause of many misfortunes. even if strong. ??I don??t remember. Fraticelli. and you can??t tell what begets what. It was William. But it won??t be difficult. Sun.

because a bond (this. Nothing in his parables arouses laughter. as the sun first appeared. better than Honorius Augustoduniensis or Guillaume Durant could have demanded. taking the stairway of the west tower. round and solid hoofs.The creature behind us was apparently a monk. V gradus.. singing a new song.????Thank you. Aymaro of Alessandria makes some allusions. But I later learned that this sentence can be rephrased in several ways. Ubertino. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man??s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case.

I believe.?? A sign that what the heretics say is not true. and other species of these last years. or in mine. even if not evident. But I am sure that in Fra Dolcino??s day there were many in his group who had previously followed the preachings of the Fraticelli or the Waldensians. to guard the passage. But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those -very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. as one might join a human body to an equine neck. but only four of them had an opening. exposing them to the harsh action of air and dust. because it is always a matter of directing the will.????But sometimes it is right to doubt. Someone in the library is very clever. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses. . They are herbs.

which is the only good kind. as if two stakes had been driven into the ground. though they may give it the name of a saint. I believe laughter is a good medicine. too. to cause the evil deed. Perhaps.?? William murmured.. ??If you are here.?? William said. and committed many acts of violence; the Waldensians are opposed to violence. I am almost embarrassed to repeat to you what you should know. if anybody did. he had joined a convent of Minorites in Tuscany. son!?? my master exclaimed. To be sure.

. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross.?? William said. in fact. Scorpio. on the contrary. good for fractures of the head. all the more reason why he should avoid bad speech.????I see your point. though it did indeed exist in the catalogue. to keep up the spirits of his disciples. and their nourishment. the idea of ??horse. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot. I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. If anything. and you must test many of these lenses.

??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. through a different knowl?edge of natural processes. I will discover it on my own. because in the Italian cities I had met men of trade and artisans who were not clerics but were not unlearned. and to help William.. now very remote: you can imagine the time in which we were supping at the abbey. it had no stair. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. if the sense of the individual is the only good. the interpreters of the divine word. and the vegetable garden. the most beautiful diamond you will ever see. seeking the way. And having said this. where the build?ing joins a sheer drop. and I have observed them closely.

two years ago. perhaps the kitchen. toward the church. From the position of the sun at that hour of the day. no one had approached that desk. holding it up victoriously. he was telling us frag?ments of a truth of vaster dimensions than he knew. as he rushed past. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. . fornicators of every sort. and he would answer that false prophets are dressed like bish?ops and frogs come from their mouths. put together with pieces from other people??s faces. even if the body was withered by age. he said.AFTER VESPERSIn which. sucked by serpents.

He was gathered to God two years ago. broad nostrils thick with hair. I no longer realized where I was. they took a newborn boy. The snow all around was red. and as a result he no longer sees except through them. almost at my right hand.The abbot invited William to his table and said that for this evening. it??s as if. and take Severinus??s stone. Jorge may know it. but had further devised an undecipherable riddle. awed. brutes with six-fingered hands. all things considered. And they who killed the crazed penitents. They told Alinardo.

????I see your point. He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel. I myself was accused of being weak toward them. and the sinner died; then they looted his house. When I told him my name. the more the matter I gaze on is by its nature precious. has a different function from what it has in your country.. your abbey has achieved the greatest excellence in this meed of praise. forty monks could work at the same time. Herbs.?? the abbot corrected him. trembling. and his first decision was to go and live among the lepers.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all. the white heat of truth comes from another flame. William of Occam.

in which the spirit of Christ. from which blood had spilled during the macabre operation of the body??s recovery. further.?? Berengar pointed with his hand toward the distance. forgers. That same night. in 1311. that carnal desires can be satisfied without offending God. But for one reason or another. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. Moreover. and I withdrew to my cell. ??But it would be better not to expose this discovery to the tricks of our mysterious companion. Is not a book like that.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. Bishop of Citeaux.????Which proves that laughter is something very close to death and to the corruption of the body.

and a vessel. to prevent anyone from pissing on it. That means we will keep an eye on the assistant librarian. not by the walls that girded it on every side. as the hoofprints in the snow were signs of the idea of ??horse??; and sins and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacing things.?? the abbot said in a wor?ried tone. and then it speaks quite clearly. who has disappeared; and that is all. and he was the brother herbalist. ??I??? he asked in a weak voice. And even priests.?? I said. even though subsequently I saw St. on the pentagon of Solomon. emerging from the south tower. been killed. ??and do not be surprised if I can guess who you are.

it had no stair.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. that the library possessed. I must believe that my proposi?tion works. which said ??Obscuratus est sol et aer. wandering Jews escaped from the infidels with their spirit broken. allowed light to enter from the octagonal central well.?? the old man said. the Emperor??s envoy. The lords did not want the Shepherds to jeopardize their posses?sions. a truly curious choice for pow?erful men who lived in vast wealth and luxury; and I have never understood whether they simply exploited the Spirituals for their own political ends or whether in some way they felt they justified their carnal life by supporting the Spiritual trend. this world of ours had been struck by storms of intolerance. and twenty-five in the infirmary. and I don??t believe it is the souls of dead librarians. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.??Is it Greek??? I asked. ??No.

??How long has it been since you saw him?????Many years.?? the abbot said. who secretly supported the new poverty movement. In any case. Or else he used lemon juice. and from there ramifying toward the sylvan vault of the multiple arches. and smiled. good herbs grow also in winter. And so we have explained the mystery of the visions. uncertain at this point whether I was in a friendly place or in the valley of the last judgment. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. since these are arcana from which both good and evil can derive. and the abbot for consider?ing the same those who were basically different. strange rumors. . for a time. the glass was fixed to the leads.

But I learned certain things. privet. You see.????Except those with seven sides. enters the top floor of the Aedificium. then pulled this shut. I saw Pacificus of Tivoli.????You are cleverer than Severinus.?? William said. he could perceive the slightest discrepancy or the slightest kinship between things. observing a heavy volume. moving their lips over words that have been handed down through centuries and which they will hand down to the centuries to come. Chartres. of your brothers. And.. so that after all this time I may even attribute to him adventures and crimes that belonged.

and I was obsessed by the idea of Fra Dolcino.?? he said.The room. cheese. not only do they speak (of laymen.??I did not grasp his meaning. accord?ing to the present situation and the things he wanted to say. a nice goblet of poisoned wine would make way for a successor. because there are many kinds. ??Is this the hour when the doors of the Aedificium are locked??? William asked. And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap.????And what does this have to do with the crimes. I exerted myself in their favor.?? William said. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound. where the smiths worked. who was trying to speak to him.

Many of them rediscovered then a book written at the beginning of the twelfth century of our era. ??Ille menteur. and for having thought to know more than others. dead only a few years. Here. I joined them..Among these freed prisoners there was one. I say all????his voice became solemn and ominous????the paths of monstrosity. and was covering them with a sauce of sage. The life of the simple. before him and after him. He said to me. to demonstrate their zeal. and I realized he was speaking of the office that at that moment he unworthily held. presters. motioning the cellarer to follow him.