The monastery is an idea that I've been working on in form
or another for probably 10 years!
The version you'll find here is the first completed version
and is version 4. The work on this version probably only,
covers about a year and half of that time. The pervious 3
versions (of which version 1 I have sadly lost) got to
probably less than half way each time.
Despite the amount of time I've working on this, I still
only consider this the first draft. I was effectively
written in two parts separated by maybe a year and so the
ideas I started working on in the first part had changed by
the time I'm came to the second. Also the style might be a
little uneven.
