She even makes the sequence matter to the plot of Ripley's Game.
"The sequencing matters," he said.
Other elements might follow, but the sequencing matters".
In fact, the evidence suggests that sequencing matters a lot in markets, which means that because Lehman collapsed the way it did we've ended up in a very different place than we would have if the government had stepped in to save it.
But "Restaurant" especially in its fluid, fast-moving early sequences, matter of factly presents a milieu in which a number of taboos -- against smoking marijuana in public, against using certain racially inflammatory words, against interracial love -- seem to have disappeared.
Sequence really matters, content really matters.
RNA sequence context matters in the termination of protein translation.
And for programmes on the Fibonacci sequence, anti-matter, Leibnitz versus Newton on calculus, and Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Pollock went along for many of the ocean sequences; the Matters, in turn, brought Calder, their close friend, to Pollock's studio.
