As it happens, there is a word for things that are “only connected by ‘and’ and ‘and.’ ” That grammatical construction is known as polysyndeton, meaning “many bindings.” It shows up frequently in the Old Testament—for instance, when God calls down a drought upon Jerusalem: “upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.”
