I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.
Homer
But you, Achilles,
There is not a man in the world more blest than you--
There never has been, never will be one.
Time was, when you were alive, we Argives
honored you as a god, and now down here, I see
You Lord it over the dead in all your power.
So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles. ’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,
‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!
By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--
Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
