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Brother William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk.Illustration to “The name of the Rose” of Umberto Ec

Brother William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk
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Illustration to “The name of the Rose” of Umberto Eco
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grey-grove:I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do n

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I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and the suspicion – which I could see he always harbored – that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.


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im fucking obsessed with the name of the rose like. it’s a medieval detective novel. it’s a religious history of the 14th century. it’s a semiotics textbook. it’s a latin test. it’s an english guy parenting a teenage german monk. it’s the best book i’ve ever read.

A screenshot from the book The Name of the Rose. Some text has been scribbled over. The passage reads: [redacted]. And he answered that it is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools, and he was one of them, and he wondered whether it was worth the effort to study in Paris or Oxford if one was then incapable of thinking that [redacted], a fact even novices know, except stupid ones like me, and a pair of clowns like the two of us would be a great success at fairs, and that was what we should do instead of trying to solve mysteries, especially when we were up against people far more clever than we. "But there's no use weeping," he concluded. [redacted]ALT

fromThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

noooooo don’t cry babygirl :( :(

a cropped screenshot of a page from The Name of the Rose. the text reads as follows: ...William to feel he was hostile. William returned his hostility, smiling at him with exaggerated cordiality and saying, "For some time I have been wanting to meet a man whose fame has been a lesson to me and an admonition for many important decisions that have inspired my life." Certainly words of praise, almost of flattery, for anyone who did not know, as Bernard did know well, that one of the most important decisions in William's life had been to abandon the position of inquisitor. I derived the impression that, if William would gladly have seen...ALT

another screenshot which reads as follows: "...stink of the Devil is evident. I mention this to you because I know that in remote times, when you would have been closer to me, you fought as did I—and those like me—in that field where the forces of good are arrayed against the forces of evil." "True," William said calmly, "but then I went over to the other side."ALT

fromThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

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