"When the pyres are lighted tonight let
the flames purify each of us in his own
heart. Let us return to what was and
ever should be the office of this
abbey. The preservation of
knowledge. "Preservation," I say, not
"search for." Because there is no
progress in the history of knowledge
merely a continuous and sublime
recapitulation.” (The Name of the
Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud)