How would you explain ‘vandal’ in the context? … Praise all but the vanishing point where we stand now, not quite parted. Already memories fall like blows. But soon they will be treasure, dropped like gold through a miser’s fingers as he makes his accounts: the years at a desk, elbow to your elbow. The Flemish lilt of your words, like the shift and drop of a typewriter carriage, every sentence luminous and careful: a library with poppy fields inside. The times our teacups crossed by accident, the shock of tasting your licorice there. The brotherhood of small rooms in locked-up houses, the drift of quiet words while waiting for sleep, a restlessness we cast over blended boyhoods: the captured fish in a glass, the spaniel that ran away in a Paris park. You were always first to escape. The sight of you, falling like rain into your own beatific slumber. Praise each insomniac hour, kept wide awake by your glow. Sleep would only have robbed more coins from this vandal hoarded store.How would you explain ‘vandal’ in the last sentence? Thanks! PS: It’ from The Lacuna by Kingsolver. This passage was from a piece of writing the narrator wrote on the day when his friend, Van, left. The narrator was a gay and adored Van secretly. Van was from Netherlands, so does the word ‘vandal’ refers to that information?