See as well other posts tagged Accomplished in Steps.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Street of Dreams
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
Paris Tango: The Butterfield Dimension
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Friday, May 9, 2025
In Memory of Director James Foley
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Sunday, March 23, 2025
“Accomplished in Steps”
For the title, see McCaffrey+Steps in this journal.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
“Accomplished in Steps” Continues …
Previously . . .
Today . . .
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
“Accomplished in Steps”
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey* (Radcliffe '47)
An AI image created on Feb. 24, 2024, by https://neural.love —
"Lily Collins Playing Chess" —
* Dies Natalis: November 21, 2011.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Accomplished in Steps*
See also Harvard ex-president Faust on Hogwarts
and (like the above photo, also on Aug. 13) …
* See previous instances of the title in this journal.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Word Magic
"Business-wise, Magic is working—Bloomberg reported
that the game brought in $500 million in revenue last year.
Hasbro owns Monopoly and Scrabble, but Magic is its top
game brand. . . .
The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story has
precedent—the Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
generated an entire novel based on drawing from a
tarot card deck. Games provide frameworks that miniaturize
and represent idealized realities; so do narratives."
— Adam Rogers, Sunday, July 21, 2019, at Wired
"The Esper party began . . ." —
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Life of the Party From Stephen King's Dreamcatcher :
From Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man :
From Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus :
"… it's going to be accomplished in steps, this |
Adam Rogers at Wired as quoted above —
"The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story
has precedent. . . ."
See The Greater Trumps .
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
Cuber
Nobel Flashback:
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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Friday, April 8, 2016
Prominent Modernist Foreground
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Accomplished in Steps
For the title, see "Accomplished in Steps" in this journal.
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Former-Day Saint
Continued from Friday the 13th of June, 2014 :
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
Related material:
Click Zenna Henderson's dates for
an informative essay from April 5, 2009.
See also posts on, or about, that date in this journal.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Actual Talent
“It’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
From a review of the new film “Magic in the Moonlight”—
“Sophie seems to have some actual talent….
When Sophie meets Aunt Vanessa, she uncovers the spinster’s
long-ago love affair with a member of parliament. It’s eerie.”
Material that is related, if only in story space:
- Today’s Telegraph obituary for aviatrix Lettice Curtis,
who reportedly died at 99 on July 21, 2014 - The 1933 film “Christopher Strong,” starring
Katharine Hepburn as an aviatrix who has an
affair with a member of parliament
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Nobel Note
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
From a post of Jan. 11, 2012 —
Tension in the Common Room—
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Steps
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47),
quoted here on December 1, 2013
"Twenty-one days is enough time to build trust
and decimate it several times over, and long enough
for someone to drop their pretensions altogether.
So while 'Dude, You’re Screwed' is about a person
at war with himself, 'Naked and Afraid' is about
people at war with each other. The elements may
get you down, but hell is other people."
— Jon Caramanica in The New York Times
(page C1 of today's New York print edition)
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
Sermon
First edition, 1973, cover art by Gene Szafran
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Off Broadway–
From this journal last Christmas—
Sunday, December 25, 2011Frage"Woher dieser Sprung von Endlichen zum Unendlichen? " — Wittgenstein, Zettel , § 273 Antwort— Accomplished in Steps and For 34th Street. See also Boundary Method. |
The "Boundary Method" link above leads to a Christmas Day obituary
for Maurice Jaswon, co-author of a book on color symmetry.
Those who prefer entertainment may consult the previous Christmas.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Frage
"Woher dieser Sprung von Endlichen zum Unendlichen? "
— Wittgenstein, Zettel , § 273
Antwort— Accomplished in Steps and For 34th Street.
See also Boundary Method.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Talented
"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things."
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
"Character, as we have stated, is revealed through action.
We are not yet telepathic; we must embody even the most intellectual traits
and express them physically."
— The Craftsmen of Dionysus: An Approach to Acting by Jerome Rockwood
Dionysus Meets Apollo
in "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"—
Step I — Tiny Dancer in My Hand (0.48.46)
Step II — The Bridge (0.52.46)
Step III — Liftoff (1.27.37)
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Making a Play
From "Deus ex Machina and the Aesthetics of Proof"
(Alan J. Cain in The Mathematical Intelligencer * of September 2010, pdf)—
Deus ex Machina
In a narrative, a deus is unsatisfying for two reasons. The
first is that any future attempt to build tension is undercut if
the author establishes that a difficulty can be resolved by a
deus. The second reason—more important for the purposes
of this essay—is that the deus does not fit with the internal
structure of the story. There is no reason internal to the
story why the deus should intervene at that moment.
Santa in the New York Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 (November 25), New York Lottery—
Midday 411, Evening 332.
For 411, see (for instance) April 11 (i.e., 4/11) in 2008 —
For 332, see "A Play for Kristen**" — March 16, 2008 —
"A search for the evening number, 332, in Log24 yields a rather famous line from Sophocles…"
Sophocles, Antigone, edited by Mark Griffith, Cambridge University Press, 1999:
“Many things are formidable (deina ) and none is more formidable (deinoteron ) than man.”
– Antigone , lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
See also the lottery numbers 411 and 332 in this journal on March 22, 2009— "The Storyteller in Chance ."
“… it’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
* It seems Santa has delivered an early gift — free online access to all issues of the Intelligencer .
** Teaser headline in the original version at Xanga.com
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Back to the Saddle
Recent posts (Church Logic and Church Narrative) have discussed finite geometry as a type of non-Euclidean geometry.
For those who prefer non-finite geometry, here are some observations.
"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia
From To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
“Yes, an airplane has blind spots. Where would you put a saddle?” Molly had her practical side.
On the practical side:
The above chapel is from a Princeton Weekly Bulletin story of October 6th, 2008.
Related material: This journal on that date.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
M Theory
"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment
of the Talented in the scheme of things."
— Anne McCaffrey
From this journal on August 23,
a look at Resurrection Road in M magazine—
Notes for an unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald—
"There is a place for a hint somewhere
of a big agent to complete the picture."
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday December 14, 2008
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:
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Saturday December 13, 2008
The Shining
of Dec. 13
continued from
Dec. 13, 2003
“There is a place for a hint
somewhere of a big agent
to complete the picture.”
— Notes for an unfinished novel,
The Last Tycoon,
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Internet Movie Database
Filmography:William Grady
Filmography:William Grady
The Good Earth (1937)
casting: Chinese extras
(uncredited)
A Place for a Hint:
(From the book Tangram)
(From the book Tangram)
See also
yesterday’s entries
as well as…
Serpent’s Eyes Shine,
Alice’s Tea Party,
Janet’s Tea Party,
Hollywood Memory,
and
Hope of Heaven.
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment of
the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Thursday October 16, 2008
Steps
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
“… it’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
Alec Guinness and Ernie Kovacs
play checkers in
“Our Man in Havana” (1959)
Et cetera,
Et cetera,
Et cetera
“…Once in a lullaby….”
— Judy Garland
Edie Adams sings on the
final episode of
“The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”
in April 1960
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sunday March 16, 2008
Real Numbers
(continued from
March 7, 2008)
A search for the evening
number, 332, in Log24
yields a rather famous
line from Sophocles…
Sophocles, Antigone,
edited by Mark Griffith,
Cambridge University Press,
1999:
“Many things are formidable (deina) and none is more formidable (deinoteron) than man.”
— Antigone, lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
Continuing the search within Antigone for the mid-day number, 874, we find…
“Power (kratos), for one who is concerned with power (kratos), is in no way to be transgressed.”
— Antigone, lines 873-874, Leinieks, op. cit. p. 69
Both passages from Sophocles seem not unrelated to yesterday’s entry for the Ides of March and to last night’s opening routine on “Saturday Night Live.”
The above word deina (formidable, wonderful, awesome) in the latter context suggests the following meditation:
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment
of the Talented in
the scheme of things.”
accomplished in steps,
this establishment
of the Talented in
the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
Related material:
The Log24 Pi Day
mantra from
Roger Zelazny —
“center loosens,
forms again elsewhere.”
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Monday February 11, 2008
Monolith
“A shape of some kind
for something that
has no shape.”
— Roy Scheider
in “2010”
For further details,
click on the monolith.
See also the Keystone State’s
lottery numbers for Sunday–
Grammy night and the
date of Scheider’s death:
These numbers suggest
the following links.
For further details related
to death and religion, see
a version of the cheer
“1234, who are we for?”
For further details related
to Grammy night, see
6/17, 2007:
A selection from the
Stephen King Hymnal
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment
of the Talented in
the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
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Sunday, August 5, 2007
Sunday August 5, 2007
Lucero
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter VI:
“What have I got out of my life? Contacts with famous men… The occasion Einstein asked me the time, for instance. That summer evening…. smiles when I say I don’t know. And yet asked me. Yes: the great Jew, who has upset the whole world’s notions of time and space, once leaned down… to ask me… ragged freshman… at the first approach of the evening star, the time. And smiled again when I pointed out the clock neither of us had noticed.”
To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
From Holt Spanish and English Dictionary, 1955:
lucero m Venus
(as morning or evening star);
bright star…
star (in forehead of animal)….
Scarlett Johansson and friend
in “The Horse Whisperer” (1998)
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Sunday June 17, 2007
A selection from the
Stephen King Hymnal
Stephen King Hymnal
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment
of the Talented in
the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
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