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

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,”

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

Everyone is a little gay, and Berenger is quite obviously super gay!

William calling out that fear is overtaking penitence as the currency of the believer. Historicity? Although probably also real, as is the current social media and Fox fear moment.

The science of optics is allowed, but not germ theory? When does the clock start for science?