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    • Glossary
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    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
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    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
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    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
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Lichtenbergianism

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Lichtenbergianism
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
July 30, 2025

I may have solved a problem.

July 30, 2025/ Dale Lyles
I may have solved a problem.

In which I hope I have foiled the future’s plans to keep me from composing…

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Composing
July 23, 2025

Okay, a Little Waltz for real...

July 23, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Okay, a Little Waltz for real...

In which I beat an ABORTIVE ATTEMPT at a Little Waltz into submission, mostly…

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July 23, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
July 14, 2025

More Little Waltzes? More Little Waltzes.

July 14, 2025/ Dale Lyles
More Little Waltzes? More Little Waltzes.

In which I decide to STEAL FROM THE BEST, i.e., me, to complete the Ten Little Waltzes…

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Ten Little Waltzes, Composing
Abortive Attempts
July 01, 2025

That Little Waltz

July 01, 2025/ Dale Lyles
That Little Waltz

In which I am bold enough to share with you an unsuccessful SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION while reminding you that that’s the way it works…

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July 01, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
June 23, 2025

About that Little Waltz

June 23, 2025/ Dale Lyles
About that Little Waltz

In which I surprise my readers with An Plot Twist of astonishing twist…ish…ness, and also some reiteration of basic Precepts…

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June 23, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Lichtenbergianism, Ten Little Waltzes
Abandonment, Abortive Attempts, Task Avoidance, Successive Approximation
June 16, 2025

I'm still uninspired...

June 16, 2025/ Dale Lyles
I'm still uninspired...

In which I give you some pro tips about inspiration…

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June 16, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Ten Little Waltzes, Composing
Abortive Attempts, Task Avoidance
June 04, 2025

Here's what I've got.

June 04, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Here's what I've got.

In which I offer my own struggles with composing as the perfect illustration of the value of the Lichtenbergianism to the citizen artist…

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Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
June 02, 2025

Decision time

June 02, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Decision time

In which I prepare to abandon the very music program that allowed me to compose some real good stuff…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts
May 21, 2025

The Ballad of Miss Ella

May 21, 2025/ Dale Lyles
The Ballad of Miss Ella

In which I explicate the different sections of the bawdy drag song, “The Ballad of Miss Ella”…

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Theatre, Composing
Successive Approximation, Audience
May 14, 2025

Got a men's chorus?

May 14, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Got a men's chorus?

As I recuperate from a malaise, have a repeat shameless self-promotion…

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May 14, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing
Abandonment
  • Next
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

Lichtenbergianism

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