Ms. Chappell saw in her son what she called "familiar patterns" — her mother suffered from schizophrenia, too, she said.
It is Harriet's reading of The Jungle Book that convinces her to try to kill Danny with a poisonous snake, a crazy notion only if you are not a person who patterns her life after adventure yarns.
It began and ended with Ms. DeLussa crouched on the floor; looking like a mechanical doll, she crossed the stage in jagged diagonal patterns, her jutting straight arms mirrored by low lunges.
Never shy of experimenting with bold colours and patterns, her couturier Stewart Parvin recently revealed that this was not only to ensure that she stands out from the crowd but to make her appear taller.
In his careful unpacking of Josie's family background, Eggers is asking us to observe subtle patterns: her decision to become a dentist, for example, he suggests, with the lightest of emphasis, is an off-the-peg identity copied from her guardian.
She prefers the more open-minded, questing inquiry of earlier students of the natural world like Thoreau and Louis Agassiz, and patterns her own research technique on St. Benedict's thoughtful reading practice, allowing a "contemplative flow" to settle upon her watching.
