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Oh.... this is such a great question, (and has good answers) but it makes me sad.
We had a GREAT chapter house - or something better. We had conventions there. You could meet PATER KNOX there. You could stay there all summer. You could go fishing. You could sing Beta songs all night.... "with John Reily and the brothers, we had the best place around, till one day lightning zapped it, and burned the place to the ground. Smoke on the water, fire in the sky."
I talked with someone once; his name is in many books, but I must not mention it here; he and I talked about the idea of doing it again... the most I can say at present is that it is not an impossibility. It still is in the thoughts of some Betas, including those of us who have actually been there...
But in reality, the best I can do is build my own fictional one. Though quite excellent, and perhaps even practical, ZZ-kai- omits some things I would include: an observatory, a pipe organ, a rose garden, and also there is NO WAY the chapter room would be "in the basement". Obviously, for security reasons, I am not going to explain where it SHOULD go. But I think you will probably be able to guess what I have in mind. Also, I cannot tell from his specs how big the library would be, but if you were like me, it could not be big enough. (Heh, heh.)
Somebody who is into that kind of drawing/rendering ought to cobble up a video tour someday... I would be interested to see it.
And in the meantime, one of these days maybe I'll get permission to post another of the Omicron Alpha stories (I've seen a sketch or two of the floorplan, but no drawings yet.)
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