The Top is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Universe. One of the earliest members of the Silver Age Flash's "Rogues' Gallery", the character debuted in The Flash #122 (August 1961).
Roscoe Dillon is a small-time crook who turns his childhood obsession with tops into a criminal persona. Roscoe taught himself how to spin around fast enough to deflect bullets and produce other semi-useful effects. The Top soon discovers that the spinning somehow increased his intelligence as well, allowing him to create a variety of trick tops. He tried to blackmail the world with an Atomic Top that would destroy half the world when it slowed down and imprisoned the Flash inside it, but the Flash vibrated out of it and sent it into space. His unique gimmick and moderate success in crime soon makes him a respected member of the Flash's rogues gallery. He dates Golden Glider, Captain Cold's sister, while coaching her on ice skating. Eventually, the Top develops immense psionic powers, as years of spinning moves dormant brain cells to the outer areas of his brain, endowing him with mental powers.
"The Top" (orig. German Der Kreisel) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written sometime between 1917 and 1923.
A philosopher believes that he could understand everything in the world if he were to understand a single element in it. To this purpose he tries to catch a child's top as it spins, hoping that it would continue spinning in his hand, but it always stops the moment he grabs it.
The top could be seen as a symbol of the spinning earth - the populated world which the philosopher tries to understand. The irony implied herein is that by focusing on the top itself the philosopher ignores the other forces that set it in motion - the children and the string.
Some critics have noted a correspondence between the structure and theme of the story - the spiraling movement of the top is echoed by the spiraling structure of the story, as the sentences are at first of uniform length, then get gradually longer until the last line which is meandering and prolonged, like the top's last staggering spin and final collapse.
A top is a toy designed to be spun rapidly on the ground, the motion of which causes it to remain precisely balanced on its tip because of inertia. Such toys have existed since antiquity. Traditionally tops were constructed of wood, sometimes with an iron tip, and would be set in motion by aid of a string or rope coiled around its axis which, when pulled quickly, caused a rapid unwinding that would set the top in motion. Today they are often built of plastic, and modern materials and manufacturing processes allow tops to be constructed with such precise balance that they can be set in motion by a simple twist of the fingers and twirl of the wrist without need for string or rope.
The motion of a top is produced in the most simple forms by twirling the stem using the fingers. More sophisticated tops are spun by holding the axis firmly while pulling a string or twisting a stick or pushing an auger. In the kinds with an auger, an internal weight rotates, producing an overall circular motion. Some tops can be thrown, while firmly grasping a string that had been tightly wound around the stem, and the centrifugal force generated by the unwinding motion of the string will set them spinning upon touching ground.
In the context of a module M over a ring R, the top of M is the largest semisimple quotient module of M if it exists.
For finite-dimensional k-algebras (k a field), if rad(M) denotes the intersection of all proper maximal submodules of M (the radical of the module), then the top of M is M/rad(M). In the case of local rings with maximal ideal P, the top of M is M/PM. In general if R is a semilocal ring (=semi-artinian ring), that is, if R/Rad(R) is an Artinian ring, where Rad(R) is the Jacobson radical of R, then M/rad(M) is a semisimple module and is the top of M. This includes the cases of local rings and finite dimensional algebras over fields.
A top is clothing that covers at least the chest, but which usually covers most of the upper human body between the neck and the waistline. The bottom of tops can be as short as mid-torso, or as long as mid-thigh. Men's tops are generally paired with pants, and women's with pants or skirts. Common types of tops are t-shirts, blouses and shirts.
The neckline is the highest line of the top, and may be as high as a head-covering hood, or as low as the waistline or bottom hem of the top. A top may be worn loose or tight around the bust or waist, and may have sleeves or shoulder straps, spaghetti straps (noodle straps), or may be strapless. The back may be covered or bare. Tops may have straps around the waist or neck, or over the shoulders.
ft. Roscoe Dash
I'm sitting at the top I got a bird's eye view
Down town condo purchased by the bird's eye flu
Actually I purchased this with the words I troop
Reminiscence on the days when the bird's eye flew
Bird flew, money got a nigger hot like fever
Life would call bitch but I ain't never trying to leave her
I'ma get them dollars pop bottles and fuck some models
Writer here, the baddest dude, the same shit tomorrow
Hey I try to tell my bitch that I can see the fucking ,
Till I'm sitting on the top like, be the ,
Got my name jumping out the floor and straight up to the roof
Now I got them hoes jumping out their clothes and in the coop
Then I take them to the condo, rip them all, cut them loose
Tell them see y'all in the morning ladies, I got shit to do
Then it's back to the money and hustling and the ,
For business she , she out the motherfucking music
I'm on my bread, they say I'm out my mind instead of ,
I prefer , my bitch, how many time just live alone and I beg
Cause I'm only trying to see her at the top
only trying to see her at the top, only trying to see her at the top
only trying to see her at the top, only trying to see her at the top
about my ,and I'm only trying to see her at the top
Hoes used to laugh saying nigger look like rerun
Now these bitches , rerun
Now them hoes' just lucky to get in and love their rerun
Now I'm shining ball on the field, neon deon
She play her husband like a peon,
Just to get beat on
Tell my partner sleeping, can't believe this shit we on
Cold harded max for the stacks, we pumping free on
Space ain't pimping with that, above it be on
I'm on my bread, they say I'm out my mind instead of ,
I prefer , my bitch, how many time just live alone and I beg
Cause I'm only trying to see her at the top
only trying to see her at the top, only trying to see her at the top
only trying to see her at the top, only trying to see her at the top
about my ,and I'm only trying to see her at the top.