“The Pattern”
“As he listened to Traffic, the novice escaping-artist believed that he needed to hear the messages contained in the music precisely at this point in his development; in other words, he clearly understood that the orchestration of specific events in his life served a complex, greater purpose, being not random occurrences, meaningless in their arrangement, but characterized and timed teleologically. Life possessed, he now realized, a certitude he had never before imagined, and the certainty did not come on the level of known science, of some absurdly simplistic, Newtonian, billiard-ball-collision causality. Instead, it owed its origin to non-physical truth, unmeasurable with the apparatus available in the laboratories of Western science.”