Living Things Perec sees by order of appearance: humans, pigeons, dogs, lettuce (Perec guesses Endive), stone lions (if this counts, should I consider a sign advertising "wholesale potatoes" to be potatoes?), some green emerging from a shopping bag, bouquets of flowers (always stems up), a bird (previously, the birds have unambiguously been pigeons. This is a bird—forever a mystery), celery, carrots, oranges.

The kinds of dogs Perec sees:, some kind of basset hound, a dog, a dog like Snowy, a basset hound, a big dog, a poodle-type dog, a spaniel, dogs, two Snowy-type dogs, a beautiful white dog with black spots, a dog, a black dog, a dog.

The increasing number of pigeons seen on the morning of the rainy second day, no birds, pigeons (fewer than yesterday), 200 maybe.

Examples of the varying level of descriptions of people:, none or almost none (e.g., human beings, people, individuals, a man), professions as people (e.g., a cop, two nuns), ethnicity (e.g., a Japanese man [the only people given an ethnicity are Japanese. Otherwise, ethnicity only shows up when describing vehicles (e.g., a German bus)]), visual description (e.g., a little girl wearing a long red hat), description of activity (e.g., a man who has just parked his car), description of character (e.g., old schmucks, young schmucks), comparisons to other people (a sort of double of Peter Sellers, A stroller who looks a little like Michel Mohrt [later, Michel Mohrt's distant double], c.f. Snowy-type dogs), by name (Jean-Paul Aron, Geneviève Serreau, "I think" Duvignaud), exact and yet anonymous (The proprietor of the Trois Canettes restaurant, Policeman no. 5976 [later, we are told 'Policeman no. 5976 ("Michel Lonsdale")'. This increase in detail between days two and three is left to the reader]).