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  • I can really grok the appeal of isolation from the booms and busts of the outside "saecular" world, especially as we enter the climax of election season. trailer (complete with jiujitsu-inspired combat sequence: -), and this bibliographic list of influences, which include J.S. Bell, many worlds quantum mechanics and Kurt Godel ...

    Information Processing 2008

  • Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone and complex rituals.

    SFFaudio 2008

  • Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals.

    Information Processing 2008

  • Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside “saecular” world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals.

    2008 July | Fanatical Pupil 2008

  • Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside “saecular” world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals.

    Update on Anathem (Neal Stephenson) | Fanatical Pupil 2008

  • Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros — a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose — as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster.

    2008 July | Fanatical Pupil 2008

  • Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros — a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose — as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster.

    Update on Anathem (Neal Stephenson) | Fanatical Pupil 2008

  • Fianna Fail is to be endlessly re-elected to office, in saecular, saeculoram, Amen?

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • But now there are factions gaining strength in the General Authority who want to place a saecular inspector in every Circ.

    Cobb 2009

  • I have even heard that some outside of the system have performed variants of the rite in the hands of saecular masters and even non-Peylyxians.

    Cobb 2009

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