The author sees lists as falling into two (very Eco-ist) categories: “those that evidence the ‘poetics of ‘everything included” and those that express the ‘poetics of the ‘etcetera’.” The former covers a finite number of items (as with a phone book) and aims for completeness; the latter (as with a medieval writer’s list of devils) “is limited only by the imagination’s disinclination to invent more.”