In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
“I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.”
“I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.”