Because of the belief that God has created reality as a kind of artistic pattern that humans only barely grasp, Vitz goes on to note “the medieval conviction that every sequence of events which occurs is a ‘story,’ that all events have causality, meaning, finality: that every living creature has a function, though often known only to God” (112). According to such a way of thinking, reality and art are deeply interwoven, and the artist’s goal is not to create a narrative but merely to help reveal a pattern that already preexists the writing.