"The Name of the Rose"

Knowledge and where it lives:

• a little jar of wine, which they called the keg..
• Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world.
• There is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
• (Illumination:) As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth, there proceeded, closely linked to it, through wondrous allusions in aenigmate, a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe.
• Mumia, very rare, produced by the decomposition of mummified cadavers.
• For these men devoted to writing, the library was at once the celestial Jerusalem and an underground world on the border between terra incognita and Hades. They were dominated by the library, by its promises and by its prohibitions.
• Learning is not like a coin, which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn out through use and ostentation.
• the teaching by Saint Thomas: the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth.
• Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book.
• Music: on that rocksolid base raised cusps, columns, pinnacles of liquescent and underscored neumae. And as my heart was dazed with sweetness at the vibration of a climacus or a porrectus, a torculus or a salicus,
• "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!" William replied.

Jorge:

• There is no progress, no revolution of ages, in the history of knowledge, but at most a continuous and sublime recapitulation.
• I am He who is, said the God of the Jews. I am the way, the truth, and the life, said our lord. There you have it: knowledge is nothing but the awed comment on these two truths. {反动啊。}
• On every side will appear abomination and desolation, the Antichrist will defeat the West and will destroy the trade routes.
• I gave you eyes to see the light of my precepts, and you used them to peer into the darkness! {和顾城正相反。}

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