herodotus

Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky...

Are you happy?_ asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his right, Mr. Nancy was looking at him with his earth-brown eyes. __ot really,_ said Shadow. __ut I__ not dead yet._ __uh?_ " 'Call no man happy until he is dead._ Herodotus._ Mr. Nancy raised a white eyebrow, and he said, ____ not dead yet, and, mostly because I__ not dead yet, I__ happy as a clamboy._ __he Herodotus thing. It doesn__ mean that the dead are happy,_ said Shadow. __t means that you can__ judge the shape of someone__ life until it__ over and done._ __ don__ even judge then,_ said Mr. Nancy. __nd as for happiness, there__ a lot of different kinds of happiness, just as there__ a hell of a lot of different kinds of dead. Me, I__l just take what I can get when I can get it.

Are you happy?_ asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his right, Mr. Nancy was looking at him with his earth-brown eyes. __ot really,_ said Shadow. __ut I__ not dead yet._ __uh?_ _ __all no man happy until he is dead._ Herodotus._ Mr. Nancy raised a white eyebrow, and he said, ____ not dead yet, and, mostly because I__ not dead yet, I__ happy as a clamboy._ __he Herodotus thing. It doesn__ mean that the dead are happy,_ said Shadow. __t means that you can__ judge the shape of someone__ life until it__ over and done._ __ don__ even judge then,_ said Mr. Nancy. __nd as for happiness, there__ a lot of different kinds of happiness, just as there__ a hell of a lot of different kinds of dead. Me, I__l just take what I can get when I can get it.