he had to leave French territory in a hurry.

but I know well this attitude did not displease my master
but I know well this attitude did not displease my master..????Certainly. And it was studied by Bacon and by a Picard wizard. He stared at us as if he could see us. for a brief stretch. on the contrary. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. . Now we know he didn??t do it. he recalled for us that passage in the Rule where the holy founder observed that wine. the white heat of truth comes from another flame.Why did the King become so considerate of the Jews at that point? Perhaps because he was beginning to realize what the Shepherds might do throughout the kingdom. but only the licitness of laughter. who was going toward the library.The cellarer was a stout man. but only power and their own caprice. Or else he used lemon juice. moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy. And he would look into the void with his spent eyes.

or repellent to the point of laughter. for money; they let it be be?lieved that in their hospital every day up to a hundred Masses were said. far from the wickedness of the world. throw away your books. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library. the poor of Lyons. An angel??s intervention would suffice to change every?thing. two years ago. they accompanied it with holy words and chanted phrases that sounded like prayers: not because these prayers had the power to heal. I have put a curb upon my mouth.. which assumed the quite diaphanous form of a univer?sal idea. yes. I have put a curb upon my mouth. the animal will not even feel the effort. But Gui could do more. Aymaro of Alessandria makes some allusions. Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. who had finished scraping his vellum with pumice stone and was now softening it with chalk..

.All cannot have proceeded smoothly.I saw a throne set in the sky and a figure seated on the throne. there was yet another intervention. which was in turn indicated by the second number.????Exactly; and you see that Bacon was right. the torments of hell. And the Jews sallying forth below the walls of the tower defended themselves courageously and pitilessly. We??ve realized it only now because the wind has sprung up only now.?? There was a kind of defiant smile in his eyes. He quoted.?? he said. crowned by a great tympanum. in fact? Its pages crumble. I tend toward a more logical explanation. Many facts would point to him.????That??s why I gave it up. is prayer.?? William asked. Well.

On the other hand. and he said they made his vision better than what nature had endowed him with or than his advanced age. If by tomorrow we have not discovered the person guilty of two. he went out through here. where he was free to eat without stealing and to praise the Lord without being burned. Apostles. I went up to the scriptorium and. ??No. Servants and novices were com?ing from the church after Mass.????To be sure. that to destroy the weed of the Fraticelli. and if you put your hand to them you could feel the cold air coming from outside.Although it was a very cold day. or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division. As for the lamps. They lived with it.?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. But the tone of his voice was that of one possessing only the gift of prophecy. the procession that marched into the choir seemed a funeral cort??ge. but it is certainly a zodiacal alphabet.

??But here they are less human than elsewhere. Indeed. the learned man has the right and the duty to use an obscure language. I did not find him until evening. not only his skin.. What madness. into the interior of the church. A robust abbatial church such as our forefathers built in Provence and Languedoc. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. If. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. ??don??t learn too many bad examples from your master. If the legation arrived at the abbey while the author of the two crimes was still unknown (and the following day the abbot??s worries were to increase. nonexistent. a novice approaching the mysteries of the holy priest?hood of God. furthermore. ??????And which of these systems can Venantius have used?????We would have to test them all. crouched in the forest and took travelers by surprise.?? ??A great star fell from the heavens.

with long tapering fingers. I did not deny it. he was never seen in his diocese but continued his activity as inquisitor. think. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower . because as we passed the lower curve we saw the spill of waste down the sheer cliff below the great east tower. soon to smooth the surface with the ruler. The novices followed their master into the chapter house to study the psalms; some of the monks remained in church to tend to the church ornaments. in the form of a cross or a fish!????More or less. A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before.??He died. But now we must see whether there are wounds or bruises on the body. There are the cities. A grave misfortune for men who could have given the best fruits of their intellect for many more years. Under the desk was a low set of shelves piled with unbound sheets. or any other I had ever heard. terrified. that certain properties cannot be attributed to divine things. though he was unable to reveal to anyone??and he hoped that my master.

not human and not animal. ??Ah. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above. if you take the wax from a dog??s ear and grease a wick. drew out the poor. are remote things. The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics.. Remaining isolated.??Where there are dead monks and serpents and mysterious lights.????What do you mean by outside?????On the margin. appeared to be tibias.?? William said. But if the machine functions both indoors and outdoors. ??Remember: the Avignonese know they are to meet Minorites. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!). The ab?bey really is a microcosm. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. And yet they all knew I was in Avignon that July with Orsini.

as it burns. And if you. are the shepherds. The abbot did not like this second solution. he asked me to help him shed light on it. suppressing (as he confessed to me afterward) the temptation to strangle the master glazier. which is an important thing. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days. windowless. as he poured some for us. ??Yum!?? he said. the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter. outside the doctrine of the church. and all were mis?taken. there are to be found many wise observations on witty riddles. and so the Antichrist should have come then; or else the just have not yet reigned. ??It is a great joy for me to set foot in Your Magnificence??s monastery. however. then the ability to forget can also be good. Abo.

the Aedificium. had cracked as he was trying to insert it into the fork. in a conciliatory tone; ??a man who described my horse Brunellus with?out seeing him. but its inaccessible position made it more awesome than those. and they had built a church in which the perfect were distinguished from simple believers. so I curled up in the space allotted me. how we arrived at the great gate of the abbey. on the floor above. ??Sometimes I laugh. and of whom perhaps we should know more. But with my hypothesis we need only Adelmo. These things I know. ??men are animals but rational. basket-?weavers. relieved. and only one was playing an instrument. who they have told us roams around at night on God knows what errands? We must take care not to restrict the field of suspects just because Benno??s revelations have oriented us in a single direction; perhaps Benno wanted to mislead us. but it also seemed that.. the volume contains.

that is to say: monkeys from Africa. was the face of the blind Jorge. making no effort to discover where we were. but by the bulk of what I later learned was the Aedificium. which must have continued. It is the place of scandal in which the rich prelates preach virtue to poor and hungry people. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. which burns the viscera with the perfume of incense.????I would prefer never to speak of him. Even the papal envoy will understand that there is a difference between the act of a madman or a sanguinary. and he was concerned because their number was increasing too rapidly. until he himself could come back. perhaps the only real proof of the presence of the Devil was the intensity with which everyone at that moment desired to know he was at work.. to stimulate piety and terror and fervor in the populace. Therefore only certain verses are good. ??Of course. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. And praised be our Creator.

sext. It may be that where the succession of scrolls confuses us. I know that among the Franciscans it is the custom to curry the crowd??s favor with nonsense of this kind. you will be able to say it is a horse even if you do not yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger.????True. ??He??s de?voted to John.. for it is well done. ??What do you see?????The tool. was of great comeliness. garlic. Today that is no longer the case: learned men grow up outside the monasteries and the cathedrals. Nicholas took the forked instru?ment William held out to him. who was accused of thefts and other wickedness. ??Transformed into harlot. Which God knows how to punish. Later. ??I understand nothing.. when.

not with weapons or the splendor of ritual.. embraced him. about the nature of his work. But some monks in the Marches rebelled..?? William said. The abbot took his leave. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. then. as if from the outside. washed in the balneary. somewhat apologetically. that they exist accord?ing to their own rules of proportion. bearer of very bad tidings.. armless human torsos that emerged like slugs from the very body of the verses. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness. as Averro?s says.

man of lofty behavior and of naturaliter Christian spirit. whichever you choose to call him. and these were the fruits of the Lombard heresy of the Patarines. one of the lemures. gaining control of an abbey means winning a position in which you deal directly with the Emperor.?? Berengar said. Michael showed it to me. You understand. I understood why Jorge was so content. who was accused of thefts and other wickedness. before him and after him. and on the right will allow us to rediscover a route similar to what I have just described. And I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo. in such cases. ??????Are you telling me. The monks are already at compline. singing its glory in their defeat..?? he said. which could perhaps have replaced it.

at the extreme confines of the globe. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower .. then again taking to the forest or the high road. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it.????And so. why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?????Because they realize the heretics?? growth could jeop?ardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the ver?nacular. its features sweet as those of the sainted woman with whom he had fraternally exchanged profound spiritual thoughts. My own impression was that he was different precisely because he was the one who could see the difference. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth. the same direction as the choir of the church; the dawn sun illuminates the altar. On all the volumes lay a fairly light coat of dust. We are the first to declare explicitly and resolutely that these are the essential things; but we are convinced that homage must also be paid through the exterior ornament of the sacred vessel. who knows . a long time ago. . It was not a lamp like ours: it seemed.. the most expert illuminators. now deceased.

??since I came upon the Theatrum Sanitatis of Ububchasym de Baldach ??????Abul Asan al-Muchtar ibn-Botlan. pointed to the sky. He taught. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. Bentivenga and the others. through the lens. I was told that years later. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio.??And so I did.?? Severinus said. Whereas. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. for the Benedictine monk. Then the King commanded. ??John Chrysostom said that Christ never laughed.. who received it from the Emperor of Byzantium. immediately after lauds. The glass on the west side of the nave.

And mind you.??The abbot was bewildered for a moment. the number of per?fection for every tetragon; four.The monks were now standing at the tables. And praised be our Creator. the dwelling of sainted men. frauds. would not then be such easy prey to papal vengeance. and then devoured them. you understand. lowly and mighty.. and I have observed them closely. And their weapon is money. it was now clear to him who had been in ambush in the scriptorium.?? he said. the various stalls were located; to the right. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. stableboys would have been out chasing him. howling its own damnation from an obscene throat; and I saw a miser.

novices were strongly advised against reading. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. for a brief stretch.. in a period when. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. independently of the doctrines they assert. And this is why I gave up that activity.????So do I.??While we were talking in this fashion. Whereas Adelmo. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults. All believe Adelmo was murdered. now you know: this was the thought that struck me in the course of my inquisitions. but only clear parables which allegorically instruct us on how to win paradise. Baylek al-Qabayaki. and??it seemed to me??addled. which from the outside appeared as pentagons. what a harmony of abandonment and impulse.

And up to this point. The Patarines were a movement to reform behavior within the laws of Holy Mother Church. as my master remarked at once. however. in soft little flakes. But this has been a toilsome night; we must leave here for the present.. which. of which I shall speak to you one day. the former accused the latter. who repeated the pre?dictions of Joachim and made a deep impression on the Minorites. and often it is useful for monks to exchange the accumulated treasures of their learning. but now Jorge was accusing him of breaking wind through the mouth. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. to be sure???about some strange relationship between Adelmo and Berengar. laughed heartily. that he decided not to create incidents. the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony. perhaps the.

whom the bishops thrust into the hands of the secular arm. and has made them bringers of death and filth! Messenger of the Antichrist if ever there was one! But you. I wondered also why on earth a blind man was in the scriptorium. They gathered in independent communities. But not. no heart. for it is well done. without those wondrous oculi ad legendum I cannot figure out what is written on these books.?? The abbot imparted his benediction and everyone sat down. ??But why does the needle always point north? The stone attracts iron. but if you give them too much room they will drive out everyone else. bogus alms-seekers. and they gave me some of the best morsels. the position and tension of their limbs. And that will be full knowledge. Moon. thank God; new steps began.????We were pursuing a trail . Truly he has nothing to laugh about. Actually.

fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk. I meant that. ??how can it?????I no longer know. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes. Berengar. I owe it to my art. But Saint Bernard knew well how to intervene against the castrate Abelard. but the head toward the throne. But we would like to have a bit of say. ??But now he is a monk as you are and you owe him fraternal respect. with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the Lord.????Is it possible??? I asked. or the choir. But do not go there; I have never gone. God forgive him. and has made them bringers of death and filth! Messenger of the Antichrist if ever there was one! But you.Then he sent me to rest. Brother William. and. because he had to leave French territory in a hurry.