Pattern

The ideas expressed in Alexander's book were picked up by the Software Engineering field and have led to many books using the Pattern Language idea to attempt to capture the fundamentals of successful software design. It may be possible to adapt these ideas to the development of a pattern language for the expression of ideas. The C. S. Lewis Wiki derives at least in part from the idea of JIAB (Jack In A Box) see **[|JIAB]**.
 * [|A Pattern Language]** is the title of a book by Christopher Alexander. The **[|Wikipedia]** article describes patterns.
 * **[|A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) (Hardcover)]**

Another field that this applies to is that of **[|Semantic Networks]**. See also **[|Concept Maps]**. A Wiki seems like a good place to start. Using C. S. (Jack) we hope to illustrate a way do concentrating and focusing the thoghts and cognitive structure of someone such as Lewis. Lewis seems a particularly good candidate for such an experiment. First of all he was a prolific writer. But more importantly, he is a man who was a deep and consistent thinker. Lewis was described by his friend of the second kind Owen Barfield as having //presence of mind// "... somehow what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything." Barfield's book "Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis" has a poem titled "To C. S. Lewis" which reads:

//**To C. S. Lewis**// My public, though select and small, Is crammed with taste and knowledge. It's somewhat stout and fairly tall And lives at Magdalen College. -- Owen Barfield (1950)