What I'm reading: Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation. Love it!
You might notice here to the right a lot of lists. There’s something irresistable about a list—fun to make, fun to read. None of that syntactic structure of subject and predicate, to slow down the information. This is probably why Powerpoint is so mysteriously and undeservedly popular.
One fun thing to do with lists is to jot a number of random nouns, and then a separate list of random adjectives, and then play with pairing them. That’s a lot of fun.
One unpublished writer I know made a list of the various dinners you can have that are actually all beef. Try it!
Then there’s a better-known writer, Charles Dickens, who made a famous list about the various contrasting facets of revolutionary France.
But the pedigree of the list goes back farther than that, to ancient civilizations whose first use of written language appears to be for what the king owns, what his people owe him: symbols for cattle, grain, man, woman.
Look, and here I’ve done it all wrong. Starting over:
Lists:
- fun
- random items to pair randomly
- lack of syntax
- alternate names for beef
- Tale of Two Cities
- Linear B
- Ten Commandments
- David Letterman's Top Ten Lists
- Quote of the Day source tally-- to be updated. Lists can be very important.
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