Watching a Garrick -an actor from England- the people would say applauding: "You are the funniest one on earth and the happiest one." And the comedian would laugh.
Victims of melancholy, the highest lords, during their darkest and heaviest nights would go to see the king of actors and change their melancholy into roars of laughter.
Once, before a famous doctor, came a man with eyes so somber. He said:"I suffer an illness so horrible as this paleness of my face. Nothing holds an enchantment or attractiveness; I do not care about my name or my fate. I die living an eternal melancholy and my only hope is that of death."
-Travel and distract yourself. - I have traveled so much!
-Search for reading. - I have read so much!
-Have a woman love you. - But I am loved.
-Get a title. - I was born a noble.
-Might you be poor? - I have richness.
-Do you like compliments? - I hear so many!
-What do you have as a family? - My sadness.
-Do you go to the cemeteries? - Often, very often.
-Of your current life, do you have witnesses? - Yes, but I do not let them impose their burdens; I call the dead my friends, and the living my executioners.
-Your illness leave me perplexed, I must not scare you. Take today this advise as a prescription, only watching Garrick you can be cured. - Garrick?
-Yes, Garrick, the most indolent and austere society anxiously seeks him. Everyone who seeks him, dies of laughter; he has an amazing artistic grace. - And me? Will he make me laugh?
-Ah, yes, I swear it; he and no one but him; but ... what disturbs you? - So, I won't be cured.
- I am Garrick! Change the prescription.
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