Hyperbole

Recently, in a discussion over on the Table Talk section of www.Salon.com, I had reason to sum up my views on the subject of hyperbole in a single sentence. Which, as this blog is about sharing, I reproduce below:

I'd rather die bleeding in a gutter, with mutant rats gnawing at my intestines and Teletubbies singing the collected works of Anne Coulter to me as I expired, than live in a world without hyperbole.