Capitolo 55
from fund to overcome with twelve long buttresses against the push of
the inside arcs and three more, being born against the inside
walls. This gives, on the forehead of north, fifteen strong vertical lines
in a space of two hundred and thirty-five feet. Among these lines
the windows tell their history; the seven long windows of the
refectory on a side; the seven round windows of the room on the
other. The tower of angle with the rent-house also becomes as
simple as the rest. The sum of this impossible wall and his/her
vertical and exaggerated lines, are strength and the intelligence to rest.
The whole Mountain still held the great style; expressed the unity
of Church and State, God and Man, the Peace and War, the Life and Death,
Good and I Win; it resolved the whole problem of the universe. The
priest and the soldier were here both in house, in 1215 as in 1115 or
in 1058; the statesman was not out of it; the sinner was
welcome; the poet was made happy in his/her his/her own spirit, with an understanding,
almost an affection as which it suggests a habit than toward in the abbot
well as in the architect. God reconciles everybody. The world is a
evident harmony, obvious, sacred. Also the discord of war is a
you detail on that the abbey refuses to insist. Not up to two centuries
later it made the Mountain takes on the modern expression of war as a
you disagree in the providence of God. Then, of first years of the
fifteenth century, Abbot Pierre the the Roy it plastered the gate of the
chatelet as you now see him/it, on the statement to the thirteenth-century sun
entry called Belle Chaise that you/he/she had treated military lake
construction with a kind of calm contempt. You will know that that a
chatelet is when you satisfy another; it knits the eyelashes in a rather alien spirit
to the twelfth century; it vases on the religion of the place; it
it prognosticates wars of religion; the resolution of society; loss of unity;
the end of a world. Nothing is sadder than the catastrophe of Gothic
art, religion and the hope.
One looks again on him all as a portrait; a symbol of unity; a