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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.

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

5.02 Terce

5.1 - Prime. Falacitic debate on the poverty of Jesus. Tiresome till the last bit, when Adso starts asking questions to William.

The Fourth Day
4.09 - Night

The beauty of the body stops at the skin
Very crude words from Ubertino…

4.08 - After compline

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means …

4.07 - Compline
Vile Salvatore and so very stupid to be messing with dark art hocus pocus with murder and Bernard Gui so near