Ideas and Steps
“Somehow it seems to
fill my head with ideas—
only I don’t exactly know
what they are!…. Let’s have
a look at the garden first!”
fill my head with ideas—
only I don’t exactly know
what they are!…. Let’s have
a look at the garden first!”
— A passage from
Through the Looking-Glass
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment of
the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
On the seven steps of Charles Williams:
“If we assume Williams was responding to a psychological need to express himself, then we may also assume that Williams wrote these seven steps in compliance with Jung’s theory that an author, who believes strongly enough in some set of ideas, has to write about them.”
— Dennis L. Weeks (a former student of Walter J. Ong, S. J.) in Steps Toward Salvation: An Examination of Coinherence and Substitution in the Seven Novels of Charles Williams (New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 1991), page 9
On the twelve steps of Christmas: