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Here's what's going to happen.
I'm gonna read this...
and you're gonna listen,

You're gonna stay on the line.
And you're not gonna interrupt or speak for any reason.
Some of this you know.
I'm gonna start at the top of the page.

Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated.
They were these things.
Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied.
There were days of mistakes
 and laziness and infighting.
And there were days, good days,
when by anyone's judgment... they would have to be considered clever.
No one would say
that what they were doing was complicated.
It wouldn't even be considered new.
Except maybe in the geological sense.
They took from their surroundings
what was needed...
and made of it something more.