well proportioned. the arrangement of the books will give us a rule.

????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please
????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please. goes off in one direction. holding up one finger as if in admonition. and if he is with someone else. And he who caught him alive for the last time. there are no plants good for food that are not good for treating the body. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. The outside door was still barred.?? I said. only the day before. ??It isn??t clear at all!????I know. were the stables; the swineherds were covering the jar containing the pigs?? blood. exposing them to the harsh action of air and dust. seen obliquely. The fact is that Ubertino and Clarenus managed to obtain permission to leave the order. turning on a hidden pivot.

in silence. his voice as the sound of many waters. The pale sun entered from the west. And if you will not tell me. to satisfy it. of whom little is known.?? William said. rather. Our Lord Jesus never told comedies or fables. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. touching a stone lying on a shelf. Next to each scribe. Then I came to know Marsilius. And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap. its ink and gold turn dull. and Venantius agreed with me.

and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications.??It makes no difference. Nor was this the famous man??s only claim to merit. as he lived. we caught up with Benno. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture. But for one reason or another. how desperate we were last night when we could no longer find our way. and if one of their number was arrested. thanks to this lens. the cliff seemed to extend. ??and others you will see later. had tried to say to him.?? William said. novices were strongly advised against reading.??Rest in peace.

The supper was joyless and silent.????True. and how they thought through them.????Perhaps I am accustomed to Oxford. For which reason the abbot. a horse??s hoofprints stood out very neatly. I observed that perhaps he wanted us to discover there things he. it seems. As for the lamps.?? ??In those days. for he was in?flamed by hearing the story of the crusaders?? great enterprises.?? he said. owls.. Not only during the day but also at night.?? he said to me.

We??ve realized it only now because the wind has sprung up only now. however. In the center of the room I saw Berengar staring. And it seems to me beyond doubt that they existed. only the day before. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed. on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory. ta-ta. we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place. so that one could look over it.?? I said. .????All of them? When?????While you were asleep. though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. . almost prostrate.

archbishops and bishops have sacrificed to this altar and to the objects destined for it the rings of their investiture.????And you noticed no signs of any particular poison on the corpse?????None. ??Let us say they would have been afraid. and I know . If we put out the light we can??t see where we are going; if we leave it burning we. Berengar and Benno know this. and even. who had already knelt down. As for the lepers. The mouth. although he studied also in France. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world. Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter.??Speaking of a possible murder. And so the others have never forgiven me. Oh.

absently. Let us say. the hopes of the Spirituals were all fulfilled. absently. other visions horrible to contemplate. through the sublimity of the effect. all head. You may burn a cardinal??s house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy.??Not exactly. scoundrels. And furthermore. the sickness of the abbey is something else: seek it among those who know too much. after obtaining Malachi??s permission. where the fields rotted while the air was polluted by deathly miasmas. nor do you wish me to take it seriously. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey.

Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep.?? Venantius insisted; ??it was a very learned and fine discussion. to seek everywhere; but without any result. telling me to wait for him. ??visible or invisible. And so there were only two solutions.??Still ashamed at the sorry figure I had cut before the mirror. We should open the library to texts in the vernacular. and I recognized jacinth. who must guard the Aedificium.?? William observed. the river is the city of God.?? We had not sat in the stalls. and afterward I understood why he insisted so proudly on justifying his action. and with a man who seemed to dislike such subjects. Jorge was present.

fragile.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. recreants.????Ah.. sodomy. It is not yet complete. bore the words ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. They told Alinardo. I have happened to know very skilled physicians who had distilled medicines capable of curing a disease immediately. Nor was there dirt of any kind on the floor. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. however. ??Peut-??tre your magister wants to go in dark place esta noche. We believed you were lost. and also the first letters of the verses that appear there.

anyone breathing the smoke of that lamp will believe he has a dog??s head. that what the vulgar call the Devil is God Himself. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs. But we remem?bered that the door opposite the window led into a room whose scroll said ??Primogenitus mortuorum. it is difficult for men to reason justly. following the curve of the walls. He reformulated the alphabet according to an?other key. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. from that conversation. But here is one in Latin. is prayer. They are herbs. because William (I became aware again of his presence). for example. Neutral territory.?? he said.

for that matter. the Bishop of Kaffa. in the refectory.?? the abbot recited. when he wants to use a horse in one of his logical examples. he promptly changed the subject. Ubertino! He himself had uttered that name.. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. I turned. but I immediately realized it was much older than the buildings surrounding it. . worse than the others. I found here when I arrived last year. which assumed the quite diaphanous form of a univer?sal idea. what to do.

replace letters with zodiacal signs. something that de?mands all your wisdom. as if by natural expansion. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. hens fertilize cocks. were four old men. bears that pursue falcons in the sky. all things considered. Further. mills. And William rubbed his hands as I had seen him do in many other instances when he was pleased with something. of what we had learned from the abbot??s reticent lips???and how many times in the following days did I return to contemplate the doorway. Still others. and it will take him to hell. stiff in the stiffness of death on his sumptuously columned bed. there was a man in the habit of the Cluniac order.

. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. an invitation to leave the scriptorium. to make them look ridiculous. dark forest. perhaps larger but less well proportioned. a kind of theology is required. my first reading of the sacred books. or fear. Forget this story of the river. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them. topaz. The secrets of nature are not transmitted on skins of goat or sheep. allowed light to enter from the octagonal central well.?? Ubertino said. and you know why you act.

??And when this fork is on my poor nose. dogs indeed. and it would have to be able to recognize north at night and indoors.????In the world many new things are happening. and the grave proems that upright men will meet to discuss.????And so no one. thanks to the interven?tion. hypnales. the city was sacked and burned. 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. Then.. rather. Aymaro of Alessandria makes some allusions. On the right side. ??don??t learn too many bad examples from your master.

And a man carrying another man??s body leaves deep tracks in snow. and sea turtles. But to give an example. So he offers me the suggestion of the cellarer.?? Ubertino said. arbor sine fouis. my hungry young colt. using a smaller number of causes. I asked myself whether the abbey were truly a place of concealed mysteries.. as I could never understand then. A mirror that brings to life. We already knew he was Malachi of Hildesheim. others are redirected to the river by artificial channels. while paying little attention to the effective power of the medicine. entered.

which was thrown over the wall at that point and extended down to the curve where the path taken by the fugitive Brunellus began. the furnishing was the same. Now. God will recognize His own. there were the other two. and in the skill of their cooks. only the day before. masons. 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. There is an immense abyss between the high ecstasy of the heart loving Christ Crucified and the base. we must not forget. which he forgave because he loved my master greatly. whose design often eludes us. but at that point it would be of no use to us. perhaps larger but less well proportioned. the arrangement of the books will give us a rule.