I was thinking of real world examples of when I wrote that, but it was intended facetiously.
I recall a story, I think of Cambridge College in England, of the roof being inspected in a large hall and inspection turning up that the huge oak beams supporting the vault had been badly damaged by insects. The college masters became worried because huge pieces of wood like that are not easily obtained, and something different would be, just that, different.
Turned out, however, their forestry people had been grooming trees to replace those beams for over a century. Because the forestry guys remembered, even if the professors hadn't, that the beams get "all beetley" after a time.
Hipsters will tell you how full of probiotics that stuff is.
Yeah, sounds like a good influence.
Elijah
------ pretty sure the story came from _How Buildings Learn_