_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ Those Hallowed Halls October 16, 2022 my research into botany got me riled up from spices on to medicine, brewing savory insights no questions one might not investigate, and document aside filling archive after archive as the years have slid on by now ancient, in the mail comes invitation, scholarship from creature on to horticulture, repair that learning sear well-aged I may be, but having verified no cost with access to libraries on site, and payment for written lots packed in the van go all my works, and backups scanned that I might at need remote, I join that university secret solar panels in the back, mini-servers on their racks then ��cross the states, a retirement trip �� for science they say I ��m no magical girl at the gate, but worry not sometimes the errors add up, and you ��ve made the trip do you mind the other gender sir, and �� ah, the wand, it likes you bones �� long aches foreshortened, years reduced to vast energy if you ��d be so kind, in after hours, we ��ve a computer you might mind but the days are yours in classes, try these glasses seventy-eight long years aside, and the magical language Latin a smattering of Greek, some middle English at its peak six classes, four days a week to fancy, and patterns ah, the joyous patterns, a method to the madness then that we might analyze in science-rheumed eyes find it glorious, bright, new, and well-articulate sure, moving the van to my office �� why not, a wave of wand antiquated PC replaced with modern storage racks, scanners a standard battery of computational wonders, output to thin foil that the silver archives might at last benefit from well-researched well-documented, well-tended love, and best beloved that archivist of my age equally redacted �� wide eyes, small mouth, and thunder trading towers and traditions for similar, discovering early every archival addition available to one ��s grimoire once granted pass from beta and early access to those things of lore claimed undocumented non-withstanding that roll from scanner to rapid shooting automation an ageless desire for that thing most sacrosanct, those hushed precincts wand to page, where ageless children plunder treasure unending now, familiar by my side, sometimes broom, and sometimes van unleashing citation and research method, cracking paywalls for argentum let there be no momentum ��s end, but wand and perhaps the whispers librarian and archivist, by class and flick of wrist expanding learning in underlying theory, test, and model �� full bristle and full throttle where hunger, ageless, blinks from pastel colored backup acquisitions ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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