Lists, Grids, And Creativity

 
Umberto Eco on lists: "The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. In fact, there is a dizzying array: lists of saints, armies and medicinal plants, or of treasures and book titles. Think of the nature collections of the 16th century. My novels, by the way, are full of lists." I've always been a proponent of incrementalism, both