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From what nonsense did Owen Meany discern what he would later call a PATTERN? From his feverish imagination? Years later, when he would refer to THAT FATED BASEBALL, I corrected him too impatiently. I tried to explain about Mrs. ught me a Volkswagen Beetle; in the campus parking lots, there were so many VWs of the same year and navy-blue color So on that superficial level I was unprepared for Dan Needham, who was tall and gawky, with curly carrot-   colored hair, and who wore eyeglasse

Dolder-dolt though he was-would have heard at least a little of the GOD'S INSTRUMENT theme; even Dr. MERRILL IS AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM. The dresses and blouses and skirts she brought home were multicolored, and multipatterned, but my mother would expertly imitate the cut of the clothes in basic black and white. He was dribbling the basketball, his head nodding almost imperceptibly to the rhythm of the ball bouncing on the floor, his eyes always on the rim of the basket.