Poet, photographer.  Web site at http://unblinkingeye.com.  I read ''A Pattern Language'' because my partner and I will need to build a house in a few years.  Pattern language has become an organizational paradigm.

Many analogues:

	*  The organization of MarshallMcLuhan's ''The Gutenberg Galaxy'', "a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms." 

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ISBN: 0802060412.  Also take note of the convergence of multiple media in the personal computer (print, telephone, photography, film, video, music).

	*  The concept of "significant form" in art (see Langer's ''Feeling And Form''
 
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ISBN: 0023675004) seems analogous to the "quality without a name."  See SignificantForm.

	*  Science, art, literature, every aspect of human life involves the manipulation of symbols.  See Ernst Cassirer's ''The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms''
 
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ISBN: 0300000375.  Programming as symbol manipulation (SymbolIsm, SoftwareIsArt).  

	*  LifeAsArt.

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