This collection of short stories is very detail-oriented, and it is for this reason that those details are vital to the impact that the story has on the reader. The "list of nothing", for example, is a list of subtleties, or details, which let the reader know about the author's current environment. It is not the flashiest aspects of nature that are the most important; instead it is the small sounds that most people do not even realize are there. However, if these minute sounds were not in nature then one would notice the silence. This is the way of details; they are not noticed when th…
