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L I S T S O F An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience N O T E COMPILED BY SHAUN USHER CHRONICLE BOOKS SAN FRANCISCO This book is dedicated to my three favorite people: 1. Karina 2. Billy 3. Danny First published In the United States of America In 2015 by Chronicle Books, LLC First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd in conjunction with Unbound Compilation Copyright © Shaun Usher, 2014 Pages 313–315 constitute a continuation of the copyright page. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. ISBN: 978-1-4521-5042-0 (epub, mobi) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available. ISBN: 978-1-4521-4457-3 (hc) Book design by Here Design Cover design by Amanda Sim Typesetting for US edition by Liam Flanagan The moral right of the author has been asserted. While every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material reproduced herein, the publishers would like to apologize for any omissions and will be pleased to incorporate missing acknowledgments in any further editions. Chronicle Books, LLC 680 Second Street San Francisco, California 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com CONTENTS xiii Introduction 1 KISS JUNE Johnny Cash 2 TERMES OF A KERVER Wynkyn de Worde 4 ATTEMPT AT AN INVENTORY Georges Perec 9 WHO KILLED JFK? Evelyn Lincoln 10 THE ARMORY SHOW Pablo Picasso 12 ANTI-FLIRT CLUB Alice Reighly 14 BOYLE’S WISH LIST Robert Boyle 17 SHOPPING TRIP TO DUNHUANG Ratnavr.ks.a and Praketu 21 THE DRINKERS DICTIONARY Benjamin Franklin 28 THE LEXICON OF PROHIBITION Edmund Wilson 30 BILL OF MORTALITY E. Cotes 32 GEORGE WASHINGTON’S SLAVES George Washington 35 THE COWBOY CODE Gene Autry 36 ADVICE TO CHICK ROCKERS Chrissie Hynde 38 ROGET’S THESAURUS Peter Roget 40 HEINLEIN’S PREDICTIONS Robert Heinlein 43 THE DREAM BOOK Author Unknown 46 NICK CAVE’S HANDWRITTEN DICTIONARY Nick Cave 48 THE FIFTY DWARFS Disney 50 WARTIME GOLF RULES Richmond Golf Club 53 RULES OF PARENTING Susan Sontag 54 FRANKLY, MY DEAR . . . Selznick International Pictures 55 DON SALTERO’S COFFEE HOUSE Don Saltero 60 NURSERY RHYME VIOLENCE Geoffrey Handley-Taylor 63 THE MAFIA DECALOGUE The Mafia 64 SEVEN LITTLE MEN HELP A GIRL Ed Gombert 65 FOR CHARACTERS WHO DON’T DIG JIVE TALK Harry Gibson 66 EINSTEIN’S DEMANDS Albert Einstein 68 MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING Julia Child 69 ROLL OF MISSING MEN Clara Barton 72 THE SALEM WITCHES Author Unknown 75 J’AIME, JE N’AIME PAS Roland Barthes 76 WORKMEN’S ABSENCES Author Unknown 81 INTEGRATED BUS SUGGESTIONS Martin Luther King Jr. 82 TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CON MEN Victor Lustig 84 GOBBLEFUNK Roald Dahl 86 TOPICS TO BE INVESTIGATED Leonardo da Vinci 88 NEW YER’S GUIFTES GIUEN TO THE QUENE’S MAIESTIE Queen Elizabeth I 104 FATHER’S OBJECTIONS Charles Darwin 106 NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S Woody Guthrie 108 MUST MAKE EFFORT TO DO Marilyn Monroe 110 RULES OF PALSHIP Noël Coward 112 A LITTLE BILL OF FARE Mark Twain 115 NEWTON’S SINS Sir Isaac Newton 118 THE PILLOW BOOK Sei Sho-nagon 120 ELOQUENT SILENCE Walt Whitman 124 ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES The Ladies’ Pocket Magazine 126 TEN FAVORITE AMERICAN NOVELS Norman Mailer 128 LIST OF THE SPORTING LADIES Author Unknown 129 REGINALD THE RED-NOSED REINDEER Robert May 130 LEONARDO’S TO-DO LIST Leonardo da Vinci 132 HOW MY LIFE HAS CHANGED Hilary North 133 OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION Henry David Thoreau 136 BELIEF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE Jack Kerouac 139 BACK TO SCHOOL COMMANDMENTS Sylvia Plath 140 WHEN I COME TO BE OLD Jonathan Swift 142 HOUDINI’S SCENE AND PROP. LIST Harry Houdini 143 REASONS FOR ADMISSION West Virginia Hospital for the Insane 146 THE EIGHT KINDES OF DRUNKENNES Thomas Nashe 148 THE STANDARD BEAU CATCHER Author Unknown 150 YOU’VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? Thelonious Monk 152 GALILEO’S SHOPPING LIST Galileo Galilei 154 IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE ART DEPARTMENT RULES Corita Kent 156 HARRY S. TRUMAN’S LOVE LIST Harry S. Truman 161 HOW TO WRITE David Ogilvy 162 REJECTING WITTGENSTEIN’S MISTRESS David Markson 164 LOVECRAFT’S WEIRD IDEAS H. P. Lovecraft 173 FUMBLERULES OF GRAMMAR William Safire 176 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS’S COMMANDMENTS Christopher Hitchens 178 OLYMPIC VICTOR LIST Author Unknown 180 HOW TO ATTAIN SMARTNESS Edna Woolman Chase 184 CONTEMPT FOR: Walker Evans and James Agee 187 THE BOHEMIAN DINNER Charles Green Shaw 188 10 COMPOSERS I LIKE BEST Lucas Amory 193 THURBER’S RULES James Thurber 194 THE GODFATHER Francis Ford Coppola 196 MYSTERIES OF OPIUM REVEAL’D Dr. John Jones 199 AVAILABLE NAMES Charles Dickens 202 LIVE AS WELL AS YOU DARE Sydney Smith 204 A LOVE LIST Eero Saarinen 206 COCKTAIL! F. Scott Fitzgerald 209 HENRY MILLER’S ELEVEN COMMANDMENTS Henry Miller 210 BRAINES. A.T. (Practitioner in phisicke and chirurgerie.) 212 SIMPLE RULES FOR LIFE IN LONDON Rudyard Kipling 214 THE FAKE BOOKS OF CHARLES DICKENS Charles Dickens 216 THE DON’TS AND BE CAREFULS Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America 219 MARRY/NOT MARRY Charles Darwin 222 VONNEGUT’S COMMITMENTS Kurt Vonnegut 224 A DECALOGUE OF CANONS FOR OBSERVATION IN PRACTICAL LIFE Thomas Jefferson 227 TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GUITAR PLAYING Captain Beefheart 228 THINGS DOING AND TO BE DONE Thomas Edison 239 11 RULES FOR BOX-OFFICE APPEAL Preston Sturges 240 DEGREES OF VAGABOND Thomas Harman 242 VERTIGO Paramount 244 SEVEN SOCIAL SINS Mohandas Gandhi 245 BODY PARTS FOR WHICH I AM GRATEFUL Tina Fey 248 MICHELANGELO’S SHOPPING LIST Michelangelo 250 SIMILES AND COMPARISONS Raymond Chandler 252 SCOTT’S TURKEY RECIPES F. Scott Fitzgerald 255 ELVIS: FAT John Lennon 256 BOOKS YOU OUGHT TO READ Ernest Hemingway 258 BASKET. BALL. James Naismith 260 DON’TS FOR WOMEN RIDERS Unique Cycling Club of Chicago 262 FRANKLIN’S THIRTEEN VIRTUES Benjamin Franklin 265 RESCUE ETIQUETTE Mark Twain 266 MY FAVORITE BOOKS Edith Wharton 269 CELESTIAL EMPORIUM OF BENEVOLENT KNOWLEDGE Jorge Luis Borges 270 A LIBERAL DECALOGUE Bertrand Russell 272 HENSLOWE’S INVENTORY Philip Henslowe 274 MIDWESTERNISMS David Foster Wallace 276 NAMING THE PHONOGRAPH Thomas Edison 280 THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT F. Scott Fitzgerald 282 MARILYN MONROE’S DREAM LOVERS Marilyn Monroe 284 QUALITIES OF CIVILIZED PEOPLE Anton Chekhov 287 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S LIST OF BIRDS Theodore Roosevelt 291 FELLOWSHIP ASSETS Frank Lloyd Wright 292 THE BOOKSHOP Italo Calvino 294 VERB LIST COMPILATION: ACTIONS TO RELATE TO ONESELF Richard Serra
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