Paul Warren’s Reviews > The Name of the Rose > Status Update

So, for men of reason letting this dude run around trying to kill a cat and do blood magic knowing the bad guys come in a day or two is just dumb.

Giving big Timeline/Michael Crichton vibes with this diagram of the library. Just those love so much faster and don’t have the weird chastity segways, actually don’t know if there is any love interest

My god what a digression. This is worse than the Anthem book

This is the very peak critique of religion. Adso thinks that god must be the one putting this girls image everywhere. Instead of locating the impetus in himself.

This man has a Ruthyie (Supergirl) problem.

“But I have determined to tell, of those remote events, the whole truth, and truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.
The problem is, rather, of telling what happened not as I see it now and remember it (even if I still remember everything with pitiless vividness,”

“The powerful always realized this. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine.”

River and its delta is a good allegory/metaphor of intention amongst the masses. Here about god and redemption or acceptance to heaven.

Kings sought the works of the library, but what about when the opposite happens and knowledge is laughed away or seen as a threat and must be destroyed?

Abo is clearly Trumpist. “At least I have a rule” because simple is better than having to weed out the complications and then to make real decisions.

The Abbott would fit right in with Marcus from Last Crusade