"I first picked up the book in the college library in Farnham circa 1992, and my belly rolled over at the greatness of it," wrote fellow photographer Gareth McConnell, in the introduction to his own book: Looking for Looking for Love.
It is time, he concludes, for America to "get over the greatness thing" and "come to terms with the limits of a president's capacity to fix things".
The debate over whether greatness is defined by an excellent shorter period (Sandy Koufax) or a less-excellent longer period (Warren Spahn) is endless.
You know Brett Favre, even when he comes out of retirement for the 14th time at age 55, will fling some game-winning pass and set people swooning over his greatness.
The one that silenced the doubters, that killed off the question mark hanging over his greatness, that gave him his place in the pantheon next to Diego Maradona and showed he could achieve the same success with Argentina that has become so staggeringly routine at club level.
The author muses over the greatness of James I while on an excursion to Windsor Castle, mentioning two of his poems: "The Kingis Quair" and "Christ's Kirk of the Green".
Arguing over Pixar greatness is a little like debating charging fouls in NBA playoff games — you can do it, and you may even have a point, but after a while it becomes tedious.
It is no wonder Germany over-estimates her greatness; think of the Kriminalpolizie and the trochaic rumble of Kulturel les Wiederaufbaumt (Bureay of Cultural Reconstruction), words in which only the tone-deaf could have failed to hear the sound of marching feet.
The crucial inspiration of the series — the cosmic centrality of rape, incest, and the murder of a young woman, and the impossible quest for justice, the irresistible temptation to try to put the damaged world back into joint — spans both cinema and television; it's the mark of Lynch's over-all artistic greatness.
