Trying to assemble a pattern in TR

[Edward A Moore]

"We start our lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the
world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this.
Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme
but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and
control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search
continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in
ritual. Picture a state funeral. It is all precision, detail, order,
design. The nation holds its breath. The efforts of a huge and
powerful government are brought to bear on a ceremony that will shed
the last trace of chaos. If all geos well, if they bring it off, some
natural law of perfection is obeyed."

"White Noise" by Don DeLillo page 291 Viking/Penguin '98

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