you cannot discover art art must be created he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched tv and smoked dinner had been chicken and peas with milk and afterward paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch at intervals she would look sideways at paul writing he pretended not to notice art artifice he wrote artifice means unnatural artifice means built to build means to find a pattern find a pattern is what we are good at he thought about this while someone else won a car do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters he asked his mother she looked sideways at him and said sure paul early on in our evolution we were hunters right and to hunt we had to see the patterns in seemingly random events like where the gazelle went each year paul i'm trying to watch tv if you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting paul got up and went to his room and lay down on his bed if the gazelle went to the same place every year he thought did they know the pattern too or was it random for them did they think each year this seems like a good spot let's graze here without knowing he wrote pattern memory in his notebook