I’ve been thinking a great deal about lists lately. My thoughts on the matter have not yet sufficiently ripened for me to elaborate fully on the definition, appeal, poetry, history and significance of the list. I have a terrible feeling that I am going to develop a grandiloquent theory on the list which will seem vitally important to expound via this highly convenient medium. Suffice it to say for now that I have decided to start posting some lists on this blog.
List 1
Books that I’ve read in the last four months whose titles make reference to celestial happenings.
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Paul Bowles, A Sheltering Sky.
Octavia E. Butler, Dawn.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night.
Ursula LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated.
Neal Stephenson, Zodiac.
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You'll find some fine listing precedents in the classics: all Homer has to say is "Odysseus and his men sat down to dinner" and he's blundering off into a 10 line catalogue of meatstuffs. These Homeric catalogues tend to recur without great variation (i.e., every time the chaps sit down to dinner they eat from the same elaborately narrated menu), and I think this is something to do with the text's oral origins.
post-Ulysses, I do nothing without Classical precedent. And from thence: Boethius...Burton...Perec...To Do This Week...
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