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All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice—the first time, as tragedy; the second time, as farce.

—Karl Marx

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

—Albert Einstein

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Pete and Repeat are in a boat. Pete falls out. Who's left?

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History repeats itself.

—Anonymous

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Poem: Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

Poem: Aleph Pattern

Poem: Patterns for Arans

Poem: Patterns

Poem: Circular Pattern

Poem: Patterns Are Made to Break

Poem: A Pattern for Night

Poem: The Pattern of This Leaf

Poem: Through the Varied Patterned Lace

Poem: Quilt of a Formal Pattern

Poem: Rapture of the Deep: The Pattern of Poseidon's Love Song

Poem: Holding Pattern

Poem: Pattern

Essay: Kite Patterns

Essay: Pattern—and the 'Simulacral'

Repetition compulsion

Pattern

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