In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagi…

Umberto Eco
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.
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