Énard's prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher on top of one another ("Zone" is a single, five-hundred-page sentence), can be mesmerizing.
Since search engines entered the world - and replaced what formerly was known as research or enquiry - interviews have become a circular form in which almost every interviewer asks the same questions as every previous interviewer, so that the previous interview he's found online remains ever more on top of your Google listing, and every future interview is ever more in debt to it.
And hey, you can't even prove that the dogs were ever left on top of a car, you racist".
But The Times is not, nor can it ever be, on top of all the major problems in all major American cities.
For the title track, Muhly layered the voice of Abigail Fischer, a mezzo-soprano, singing all the addresses at which she has ever lived on top of recordings of another friend taking a shower, eating toast, and frying an egg.
In 2000, Mr. Ballmer credited Mr. Gates for noting that no company in the computer business had ever stayed on top through what Mr. Gates called "a major paradigm shift".
In a discussion about women in public life at the Bath literature festival on Saturday, Kirsty Wark was heard to say: "There are more women driving in Saudi Arabia than you will ever see on Top Gear … In fact, you actually have more chance of hosting a driving show in Saudi Arabia than you have of hosting Top Gear".
The highest summit finish the Tour has ever seen on top of its most fearsome mountain, preceded by two of its highest passes, the Agnel and the Izouard," wrote Guardian bike-racing correspondent Will Fotheringham in our interactive guide to the Tour de France.
Everyone who's ever worked on Top Gear has kept the Stig thing a secret, and the person who wears the suit has signed confidentiality agreements to do the same.
"Badger vaccine is being used and will continue to be used as part of the package of measures in this policy to try and halt the spread of TB. "But we must remember that no other country in the world has ever got on top of this disease without also tackling the reservoir of infection in the wildlife host, thereby breaking the cycle of infection between badgers and cattle".
