Inside a Rising Medieval Cathedral - Grandfather to Grandson to Great-Grandson (AI Reconstruction)

There is a kind of building project that does not exist anymore, and has not existed for centuries — the project that everyone working on it knew they would never see finished.

Imagine being a young stonemason, 20 years old, hired onto a construction site. You are shown the plans — or rather, the great drawings scratched into the plaster of the tracing-house floor — and you understand, doing the simple arithmetic of your trade, that this building will not be finished in your lifetime. Not by twenty years. Not by fifty. This building will take 100 or 150 or 200 years to complete. You will work on it your entire adult life. You will teach your son the craft, and he will work on it. You may live to see him teach his own son, and he will work on it too. And even that son may not see it finished.
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