You may know the story about the child who was helping a nun across the street and when they got across, she said, “Thank you, little man.”

And he said, “Ma’am, any relative of Batman is a friend of mine.”

So there is a nice example of pattern-recognition.

And that formalized contour-world of the nun’s costume is close to Batman. It has nothing to do with the content of the two costumes.

A final content-pattern story concerns General DeGaulle being taken around an art museum by his Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux. As they went along, DeGaulle would say, “Now, what’s that one over there?” to Malraux, to which Malraux would say, “Oh, that’s a Renoir.” “Ah,” says DeGaulle. “I think I recognize the next one. That hideous cartoon. That must be a Rouault.” “Oh no sir: that’s a mirror.”