On Lists

Just read an essay about a new book out celebrating the list, Umberto Eco's The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay. It immediately made me wonder if Eco knows of E. B. White's use of lists in his children's books, one of his most delightful and (certainly to my students) recognizable stylistic tics. For example, here's narrator White on Templeton in Charlotte's Web:

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no...