The thing to do was to make the surface thoughts automatically repetitive.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
So they influence his preferences and predilections by providing him with an absolutely totalitarian, micro-controlled, repetitive environment.
"Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema"
Sam Vaknin
Literature was repetitive and scholastic.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds