Well, maybe not the greatest essay ever written. It's more like a short essay, or a kind of a modified paragraph. So properly speaking it's the greatest paragraph ever written, but that doesn't sound right. Also, "paragraph" isn't exactly what it is either, is it? I mean, at any second I might break out of the paragraph into the single sentences that are historically one of my stylistic flourishes.
Like this.
So probably we'd best discuss this as the greatest blogpost of all time. But I'm not wild about "Blogpost" at this point in history where "blogpost" has come to mean something more like "soulless marketing text" rather than a piece of original, independent prose.
Hmmm.
Greatest piece of original, independent prose?
I don't know.
It seems wordy.
Finest short prose piece?
Best all time bit of writing?
Top concise composition?
How about:
Greatest miniature work of literature ever written?
I like that, but I am haunted by one small, niggling detail:
How great can any piece of writing be if the author cannot be bothered to correct the title of it?
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