There's a lot more to a list than meets the eye: What story does it tell?
The task was to consider a story in list form. What could be told if the standard story structure was eschewed for a leaner form? The idea arose from (what research told me is) the American writer Susan Sontag' s iconic love of lists. She wrote , "Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province." And, "I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create – or guarantee – existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists’. The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names." Her lists include these two : "Things I like: ivory, sweaters, architectural drawings, urinating, pizza (the Roman bread), staying in hotels, paper clips, the color blue, leather belts