Felix Salmon, writing at MemeFirst, had an interesting reaction to a recent posting in which, among other things, I discussed the difficulties inherent in drawing up Top Five lists:
Terry Teachout, today, says that “it’s usually not that hard to pick a One Best–absolute excellence is by definition self-evident”. He goes on to give examples: “The greatest opera ever written,” he says, “is The Marriage of Figaro“. To which my immediate reaction is “That’s not the greatest opera ever written