Status Updates From The Name of the Rose

5.05 - Vespers
’…but as inquisitor I am better. Bernard is interested, not in discovering the guilty, but in burning the accused. And I, on the contrary, find the most joyful delight in unraveling a nice, complicated knot.’
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‘But it is a story of theft and vengeance among monks of scant virtue!’ I cried, dubiously.
‘Because of a forbidden book, Adso. A forbidden book!’ (p. 442)

5.04 Nones - Trial of Remigio
I was trembling for this chapter. Now I understand that I live in a time most similar: contemporary politics using the very techniques of the inquisition to guard the very purposes. It’s not about Remigio, it’s about Gui: how he demands loyalty, warns all to stay clear from nuance. Haste has little to do with speed, it’s all about the refusal of reflection.

These first 3 days of this book have been eventful to say the least.

’The glutton has become pure again,’ William said to me.
‘But is this purity?’, I asked, horrified.
‘There must be some other kind as well,’ William said, ‘but however it is, it always frightens me.’
‘What terrifies you most in purity?’ I asked.
‘Haste, William answered.