The Superlative Project
As a reader and an editor, I’m constantly amazed by writers’ propensity to depend upon superlatives to describe people, places, and experiences.
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If everything is “the best” or “the most,” what’s left as least or worst… or in between?
I’ve decided to collect all the superlatives I come across in the month of May. The purpose? To see if the use of “best of”/”most of” is really as common as I think it is, and then, to reflect critically on what it means to classify everything in categories of extremes.
I won’t be going out of my way to look for superlatives–I’ll just be collecting them as I come across them.
If you find any, feel free to send them my way. I’ll post my findings here at the end of the month.









May 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 am
I’ll try to find some here in Paris. I’m sure there are lots of them here. We’ll see…