I was once asked to list the items that I would put in a box to give to someone who doesn't know me, and to whom I can't actually say anything, that would give them some clue as to the sort of person I am. I was only to list a dozen items, but I went for lucky 13.

1. Tea with milk.
2. A blank notebook, with pen.
3. An F1 racecar.
4. The OED.
5. A CD of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
6. A book containing the poems "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost), "If..." (Rudyard Kipling), "The Waking" (Theodore Roethke), "Still I Rise" (Maya Angelou), and the lyrics to Jimmy Cliff's "I Can See Clearly Now".
7. The Tao Te Ching and some Zen koans.
8. A bottle of good vodka.
9. A dinner of slightly rare steak, potatoes (with butter and black pepper), carrots, green beans, cheesecake, and lime sorbet.
10. A bright light.
11. A box of crayons.
12. A warm blanket.
13. A picture of Uluru.