So they have maybe 30 or 40 programs. It's funny, because in this church they had a completely computerized bell system. They could program a whole week, a whole month, a whole year. When a child was born, they would change the program and ring the bells, just to inform the 200 people that lived there that a new child was born. So this is a very early form of information.
Mimesis means to copy.
I think the idea of a loop is not far from mimesis. The loop is going on, and on, and on, and it's always the same.