Lists

[Bowen]

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned, but list making and
epic poetry are really reliant upon one another. My favorite example
is the naming of men and ships in the second book of The Iliad.
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On 11/16/06, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> Glass Medicine Cabinet:
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> The shelves bore iodine, Mercurochrome, vitamin capsules, dental
> floss, aspirin, Anacin, Bufferin, Argyrol, Musterole, Ex-Lax, Milk of
> Magnesia, Sal Hepatica, Aspergum, two Gillette razors, one Schick
> Injector razor, two tubes of shaving cream, a bent and somewhat torn
> snapshot of a fat black-and-white cat asleep on a porch railing,
> three combs, two hairbrushes, a bottle of Wildroot hair ointment, a
> bottle of Fitch Dandruff Remover, a small, unlabelled box of
> glycerine suppositories, Vicks Nose Drops, Vicks VapoRub, six bars of
> castile soap, the stubs of three tickets to a 1946 musical comedy
> ("Call Me Mister"), a tube of depilatory cream, a box of Kleenex, two
> seashells, an assortment of used-looking emery boards, two jars of
> cleansing cream, three pairs o£ scissors, a nail file, an unclouded
> blue marble (known to marble shooters, at least in the twenties, as a
> "purey"), a cream for contracting enlarged pores, a pair of tweezers,
> the strapless chassis of a girl's or woman's gold wristwatch, a box
> of bicarbonate of soda, a girl's boarding-school class ring with a
> chipped onyx stone, a bottle of Stopette--and, inconceivably or no,
> quite a good deal more.
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