Gambling Operates Under The Premise That Greed

Tragedy Massages The Human Ego Even As Comedy Deflates It. ... Tragedy Pits Us Against Large Foes And The Trip Wire Is Our Own Character. ... In Comedy We Fall Afoul Of One Another. Comedy Depends On Social Life, On Our Behavior In Groups. In Tragedy You Can Observe One Human Against The Gods. In Comedy It's One Human Versus Other Humans And Often One Man (or Woman If I'm Writing It) Against Her Own Worst Impulses.

Pain Isn't Always The Enemy.

The Human Animal Varies From Class To Class, Culture To Culture. In One Way We Are Consistent: We Are Irrational.

We Have The Ability To Be The Athens Of Modern Times As Opposed To The Militaristic Sparta. I Remind You That The Athenians Wrote Poetry. The Spartans Did Not.

Tennis, Imprisoned Within Fixed Boundaries, A Patch Of An Acre, A Green Rectangle, Tries The Human Soul. A Tennis Court Is Like A Coffin, Only Larger.