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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.

’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.

With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him — it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone that quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him — it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone that quiet day, and his little heat, dispossessed, had stopped.

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8. Talking about Miss Jessel, Mr. Quint and the two children, not being honest about things. Governess strangely jumps to conclusions, far too willing to see ghosts. Strange though, these apparitions…

16. Rusland’s motivatie voor de oorlogsverklaring. En ondeugend gedrag van uitgedaagde Natasja (wat er geloof aan is ontgaat me)

1.15 - Diner tgv Natasja’s verjaardag. Marja Dmitrijevna Achrosimova als meest interessante figuur, no-nonsense dame op rijpe leeftijd

1.14 - Gravin Rostok betaalt voor Boris’ uniform. De Graaf vraagt niet eens wat het voor is…

1.02 - Een vrouwenbeen
De stijl van ILP is deze eerste pagina‘s wel een beetje pedant. Herken het als zo graag zwierig willen schrijven. Zou ironie kunnen zijn maar werkt bij mij vooral irritatie op.

1.01 - Op de tast door een donker steegje in Genua

Epilogue: It is in our house now

7. Is our future or is it past?

Good people don’t divert their eyes from evil; they confront it.

6. From Twin Peaks to Odessa, Texas

5. The Ersatz Show

4. The rape of Sarah Palmer

3. I’m not gonna talk about Judy

For evil to exist, there must be enough people to ignore it, and it might be argued that ignoring such acts of evil is worse than evil itself.

2. The resurrection of Laura Palmer

1. The Red Room

Introduction

13. Pierre en Boris ontmoeten elkaar voor het eerst sinds hun kinderjaren

12. Moeder Anna en zoonlief Boris bezoeken doodzieke Bezoechov, maar komen in eerste instantie niet verder dan Vorst Vasili, die weinig gecharmeerd is van hun bezoek. Anna Michajlovna manipulatief en ongegeneerd.