lists

i'm curious about my own tendency to make lists. is it merely a post-structural form of the icebreaker? a mode of self-identification, a rattling of sets of shibboleths? with the hope that listing might be or become something else — the expression of a vestigal oracular impulse, an incursion of stochastic process into the creative act, even just comic relief — i offer the lists below. they are numbered not to indicate order or value but to invite random selection.