books.google.co.uk - For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Anathem.html?id=CgeHW-geducC&q=Edharians&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAnathem