Rhythm, Circle, Wheel

Deleuze begins his analysis of Repetition with the observation that a repetitive pattern is never given as such as an experiential datum, but is the product of a mental synthesis. However, if he had kept to his insight that Repetition is Rhythm, and had recalled his declaration, at the end of his book on Hume, that Philosophy is a "theory of what we are doing", his examination of Repetition might have instead begun with a study of a producer of Rhythm, i. e. of a drummer. By observing the act of drumming, he might have noticed that what the drummer produces is an expression of variable cyclical physiological motions, not the sameness, or the difference, between beats. He then might have realized that while the Circle might be a symbol of Heterogeneity, it is also the prototype of both human creativity and human-made motion, i. e. of the Wheel.