In an age of information overload, lists like this one are the ultimate quick fix. A kind of therapy and addiction all in one, the list is appealing because of the way it neatly puts things in order, seemingly curating life's contingency.
Chie's own lists, in some ways, she hardly notices herself writing them; they bring a reflexive comfort. They waft slightly on their pegs in her sleeping quarters while she dreams.
Lists, though, are a bit like bikinis: they never cover everything. Beats from the modernist hitlist (Joyce, Woolf, Beckett) are audible in this quest to really capture the real.
For him, conversation is simply enumeration. Others have opinions. I have lists. This cult 90s novel traces Rob's breakup and his realisation.
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