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Enumeration, by seanahan
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Vikram Seth, in his virtuosic novel in verse The Golden Gate, at one point refers to unsophisticated people mingling with others who have more refined tastes: "Thus the young yahoos coexist / With those who list to list to Liszt." The first "list" is being used in the archaic sense of "have an inclination for" (which seems similar to the nautical sense of the word, though my Oxford American doesn't connect the two meanings).
Love that website. :-)
I love this list of lists.
I bought a book of Eno's diaries from a woman on the sidewalk a couple of weeks back. I'm dipping into them in parallel with Kafka's diaries and the combination is hilarious.
Edit: on topic, I like the sense of "to lean over", e.g. of a ship or even better, the imperative for "listen" c.f. Hamlet.
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list
from Oblique Strategies, Brian Eno