The Madame Psychosis show (p. 191)
The background music is both predictable and, within that predictability, surprising: it's periodic. It suggests expansion without really expanding. It leads up to the exact kind of inevitability it denies.
Context
Mario listening to the show up at HmH. The cued music is itself an annular form — periodic, promising motion and delivering recurrence. A sentence earlier, the word periodic literally "pops into his head" about her show.