![]() The exchange between Adso and William does not exist in the manuscript. ![]() At that point I realized that a disturbing thing had happened. But then a reader pointed out to me that on the following page, Bernard Gui, threatening the cellarer with torture, says: “Justice is not inspired by haste, as the Pseudo Apostles believe, and the justice of God has centuries at its disposal.” And the reader rightly asked me what connection I had meant to establish between the haste feared by William and the absence of haste extolled by Bernard. And William answers: “Haste.” I loved, and still love, these two lines very much. “What terrifies you most in purity?” Adso asks. ![]() As I read the reviews of the novel, I felt a thrill of satisfaction when I found a critic (the first were Ginevra Bompiani and Lars Gustaffson) who quoted a remark of William’s made at the end of the trial (page 410 in the English-language edition). ![]()
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