The magazine was short-lived but Garcia Marquez was undeterred and went back to his uncompleted project, The Autumn of the Patriarch, a novel based on dictators like Gomez, Trujillo, Duvalier, Ubico and Franco (though when an old friend read it in 1975 he commented that he had "never known such an autobiographical novel").
It remains, however, an ongoing, evolving, gloriously uncompleted project whose future will be determined by a whole host of factors: by Norris's own strengths and weaknesses, by the quality of the team around him, by the vagaries of the British economy and, not least, by the mad unpredictability of society itself.
It stranded thousands of uncompleted building projects along the Costa del Sol and helped precipitate a banking crisis.
American officials say, though, that there is no evidence of any arms-related work by the Chinese companies in Afghanistan and that the uncompleted telecommunications projects were only rudimentary in a country whose infrastructure has been ravaged by two decades of war.
Nye undertakes the monumental, and previous uncompleted, task of examining the social transformations that a new source of energy initiated.
Any uncompleted task can be moved to the next day's to do list.
The militants also threaten the Kajaki dam, a large, uncompleted aid project that was meant to power southern Afghanistan.
It offers more questions than answers, not only for state-run thoroughbred and harness racing, but also for Atlantic City, the uncompleted Xanadu entertainment project at the Meadowlands and the sports authority itself.
His clock project remains uncompleted.
