Hours, Towers, and Powers
jm
plachazu at ccnet.com
Mon Oct 7 20:40:30 CDT 1996
>
>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
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