My queries started life as a way to do daily calculations for bulk
detection. Simple mathematical formulae, expressed in flawed
linguistics, evolved from a few eighty character lines to pages. Then,
they became a cryptogram, so that my day began with redicyphering,
editing, jotting on my worksheet.  It became necessary to abstract it
all away; to write a query builder from the query itself.  It was a
cheap and forward trick, but it worked.

From the post-gestalt vantage point, it is not hard to imagine what
happened next.  The query engine, the worksheets, began to rewrite
itself.  I did not know what awaited me, but I was aware that when I
first closed the loop outside of myself, that an event would occur.