I read the news today, oh boy! About a lucky man who made the grade. He blew his mind out in a car. He hadn't noticed the lights had changed. I woke up fell out of bed dragged a comb across my head……. THE BEATLES (poorly quoted)
Robin Williams, comic genius, a man who entertained millions with his manic antics in a career which spanned decades, is dead, not a greatly exaggerated rumor. He was a young man but like many in entertainment the chance for sin and avarice proved too inviting and the Sybil and whatever that whirlpool is called which Homer describes in the Odyssey all those years ago, comprising drugs and alcohol took a toll on Mr. Williams. After all when the curtain falls, and the lights go out and you take your costume off and fall into your bed at home, all that is left is your own humanity. And Mr. Williams had to live inside that brilliant head of his which delighted millions of his fans for many years. Apparently he was lonely inside that great big gelatinous mass of brain with its unique mix of neuronal circuitry fine tuned to the absurdities of life and its delicious ironies.
In the end his brain did not leave him, he left his brain. And the world was a better place with Robin Williams here to point out what needed to be laughed about. RIP Mr. Williams.
You made a positive contribution.
Jackson Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
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