But we learn the patterns of stories before we learn their meanings, and Animal Farm has a very clear pattern.
News reports have followed a predictable pattern of stories based on leaks from prosecutors with emerging details of the $4 million that prosecutors believe he tried to hide by investing it in land in Tokyo.
He did admit to being informed by the "shapes and patterns" of the stories he unearthed - for example: "It's amazing to look at some of these homecomings that are captured by news crews".
Specifically, brain activation patterns of the stories containing both elements (COOPDEC) tended to show higher BOLD responses in the majority of ToM-activated regions, i.e. in bilateral TPJ, right anterior temporal cortex, left inferior and superior frontal cortex compared to COOP and DEC, respectively.
So that many of the stories told about Ahmet were told with awe, and very many followed the pattern of a story that placed him in his office at Atlantic arranging a social engagement with a French diplomat, in French.
The pattern of a story has been decided, even if we do not yet grasp it.
This is part of the general patterning of the story in sets of doubles: the strange echoes between the fate of Sado's son and the threats to Hadji Murad's son, for example; or Nicholas I and Shamil, the despots who both order executions and experience similar uneasy feelings of lust, who exude power and pride, but whose self-delusion is almost matched with concealed guilt and self-reproach.
He won a 1955 Emmy Award for his script Patterns, a story of ruthless business executives, and a 1957 Emmy for his script Requiem for a Heavyweight.
The Archaeologist also doesn't fit the pattern of the other stories: two gothic, two stories which explain the plot and two stories which you just know would win Oscars were they films, The Archaeologist is the odd one out and doesn't belong in any of these pairings.
That trite phrase is accurate in an almost technical sense: Ms. Ramsay (who adapted Lionel Shriver's novel with Rory Stewart Kinnear) follows a kind of dream logic in telling a chronologically splintered story, weaving patterns of associated images and sensations into an intense and claustrophobic web of fear.
