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Chapter 13
Ordering and Reordering
13.1 Top 10 Reasons Why Top 10 Lists Fail
10. Who wants to be last on the list? On the other hand, making the
list is much better than being 11th.
9. Is nine really better than 10?
8. There are usually twenty to thirty people who say they are in
“the top ten.”
7. “Lists provide a simulacrum of order that reifies our inherent
unease over the chthonic forces of disorder”- Guy de Montpar-
nasse, doctoral thesis.
6. Sixth is a comfortable position. It's not high enough to provide
endless anxiety about slippage, but it's not low enough to slip
offofthelist.Slippingoffthelistwouldbeterrible.
5. Five golden rings.
4. There is no number 4.
3. All good things come in threes. But it's not the same if you're
number 3 in a list of 10. Being third in a list of 100, however, is
pretty good. Of course, every top 10 list is really a list of 100 or
1000 with the other 90 or 990 left off. Where do you draw the
line?
2. No one ever remembers the silver medalist.
1. Being number one would be much more fun if everyone wasn't
gunning to unseat you.
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