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# Patterns
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/patterns/
- Published: 2020-11-23T22:55:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:36.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

It’s been a long year of predictions: infection rates, election outcomes, the future of cities, and the nature of work. This year has also been a hard lesson in the inability to predict anything. Nonetheless, I’m constantly pattern-seeking, hoping to glean new information from the rhythms of my life: morning routines and habit fields, the glitches and loops of ambient thought. But my conclusions are arbitrary, tinted by how I squint at my compulsions or occasional moments of coincidence. Maybe I’ll find better information by examining the pattern of the tiles in the bathroom.

There was a time when people believed the stomach’s gurgles and rumbles belonged to the voices of the dead. Ventriloquism began as a religious practice; the term is Latin for “speaking from the stomach”: *venter* (belly) and *loqui* (speak). The ventriloquist would decipher the belly’s sounds and predict the future.

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