Hours, Towers, and Powers

[Henry Musikar]

I am sure that there must be some literary term for the use of lists; 
William Carlos Williams had a poem where he enumerated the things in 
layers on his desk (he used a word, if 20+ years ago memory servers 
me, "dendritius" or something like like that, or maybe it just has 
something to do with tooth decay).

Tick tick, DCNY

On  4 Oct 96 at 5:22, Geof Starr wrote:

> > 5)  What purpose do the many lists of objects (e.g. Slothrop's
> > deskful
> >     of bureaucratic smegma) serve?
> 
> In a word, I'd say "versimilitude" -- perhaps a pointedly hyperbolic
> form of versimilitude, but verisimilitude just the same.

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