This disquisition is broken up by five wonderfully groansome jokes and six "thoughts" recited from a list introduced at the top of the show.
To reinforce the point that he was not overwhelmed, the Senator recited from a list of his current legislative efforts, from preserving the California desert to seeking more money for AIDS research.
For nearly an hour, he recited from a dizzying list of art projects: "make spray-tan monochromes"; "make atonal twelve-tone ring tones"; "go to a comedy club and re-do Seinfeld routines from memory".
For nearly an hour, he recited from a dizzying list of art projects: "make spray-tan monochromes"; "make atonal twelve-tone ring tones"; "go to a comedy club and re-do Seinfeld routines from memory". He had recently tried out the Seinfeld one, at an open-mike night on the Lower East Side, and he had bombed.
Recited as a list, those past four years sound positively existential.
On Monday night, Clinton won't have the time to recite such a list.
Earlier I watched him recite a list of 252 random digits as effortlessly as if it were his telephone number.
Count to twenty or recite a list of something to yourself.
There, the dead person swore that he had not committed any sin from a list of 42 sins, reciting a text known as the "Negative Confession".
He recited a list of grievances — from the Soviet Union's transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian republic in 1954, to NATO's expansion to Russia's borders, to its war in Kosovo in 1999, when he was a little-known aide to President Boris N. Yeltsin, to the conflict in Libya that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011 on what he called the false pretense of a humanitarian intervention.
I recited the Vidui, a list of transgressions from A to Z: we abuse, we betray, we are cruel, we destroy, we embitter, we falsify, we gossip, we hate, we insult... we yield to evil.
