Once a pattern appears, I find it hard not to see it. The way jokes have three parts. Crescent dunes in a desert. How sitcoms all use the same structure.
Patterns cause a pause, the way they’re wrapped around revelation. I remember feeling mesmerized the first time I saw farms from an airplane and noticed how they seemed like quilts, or circles drawn wi…
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