Eric Maas’s Reviews > The Name of the Rose > Status Update

It was more than as dismissal, it was an expulsion .

6.04 - After Terce
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams .

6.03 Terce - Adso’s dream

6.02 Lauds - A new cellarer
6.03 Primes - Relics and curiosities

’…in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve.’
‘Really?’ I exclaimed, amazed. Then, seized by doubt, I added, ‘But the Baptist was executed at a more advanced age!’
‘The other skull must be in another treasury,’ William said, with a grave face .

6.01 - Matins
Death of Malachi

Day 5
5.06 - Jorge’s reproachful sermon, preaching about the coming of the Antichrist close at hand

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.’
[…]
‘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.

5.03 - Sext

Searching the laboratory after the discovery of Severinus’ body. William, clumsily discarding an album that has to contain the Greek book he’s so desperately looking for