Capitolo 54
simple joy when one had such room to work in; such stain as the
great room to walk in, when the storms blew; or the cloisters in
what to meditate, when the sun shone; such dine-room as the
refectory; and such seen by the windows of one on the endless one
ocean and the astuteness of the it sand-blasts mobile of Satan. Battlement give of
Sky, William of Saint-pair looked down on him with envy.
Of all the parts of the Merveille, the most fascinating owe in the summer,
you/he/she has always been the cloisters. Only the abbey of the Mountain was rich
and splendid enough to build a cloister as this, all in the granite,
carved in forms as light as if I/you/he/she were wood; with columns
systematized in a triangular and particular order that has excited the admiration
of Viollet-she-Duc. "One of the most curious and complete cloisters
what we have in France", he said; even if in France I am many
good-looking and curious cloisters. For another reason it has value.
The architect wanted to tell him/it to reaffirm, with the whole art and you/he/she honors him
you/he/she could command, the dominion of love, of thought and poetry in
religion, on which it has characters masculine military energy of the great room
under. The thirteenth century made slip an opportunity to insist on rarely
this moral that love is law. Saint Francis was preaching the
birds in 1215 to Assisi, and the architect integrated this cloister
1226 to Mont-Saint-Michel. Both the sermons were made saturated with the
feeling some time, and both I am around equally value noticing, if one
it inhales to feel the art.
A conscientious student has to climb down still the many footsteps, on the
out, and it looks above at the Merveille from under. Few buildings in
France is worth the trouble. The horizontal line to the roof
measures two hundred and thirty-five feet. The vertical line of the
measures of buttresses in round they number one hundred feet. To make walls
of that height and stand of length above to all it was not easy matter, as
Robert de that Torigny had shown; and so the architect thought them