Derek Cook’s Reviews > The Name of the Rose > Status Update

The hood of books lies in being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts, therefore it is dumb. This library was perhaps born to save the books it houses, but now it lives to bury them.

I…find the most joyful delight in unraveling a nice, complicated knot.

No. You want a corpse, and to have it you need me to assume the guilt for other corpses.

But changing habit is not enough to erase from the soul the evil of heretical depravity, and so we are here now to find out what lurks in the recesses of your impenitent soul and what you did before arriving at this holy place.