The Organization of the Aedificium

Continuing through The Name of the Rose. The description of the organization of the library on pp 311–316 is absolutely joyous. Which adds another rock in my sling to hurl against the Fash like Leonard Leo, Amy The Rabbit Barrett, and the rest of the TLMers and LARPers who have infiltrated America to the level of the Vice Presidential candidacy.

You studied Latin and choose Church Latin and Aquinas?! The most debased and boring Latin in all of Romance history. You ignorant fool.

You could read Tacitus, Lucretius, Livy, Virgil AND YOU CHOOSE AQUINAS!!?

You could read the Irish Monks grappling with the fall of civilization as Viking wolves howl over the crash of the shoreline AND YOU CHOOSE AQUINAS!?

You could read the accounts of Nahuatl minor nobility as their millennia old civilization crumbled around them in the Valley of Mexico AND YOU CHOOSE AQUINAS!?

They choose ignorance, the fools.