Hours, Towers, and Powers

[jm]

>
>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).
>

It's called a "congeries."  The novel _Frank's World_ (which has been
mentioned before on this list) has one that's 8 pages long!   
                                                         -jm