Demigod

Elvis Costello is a demigod of new wave music.

Maradona was a demigod. With the ball, he was a god. Without the ball, he was human.

He said he was a demigod.

"Would you like to be a billionaire, Tom?" "An aberrant psychopath, a cunning snake, a demigod who is allowed to do everything?"

"Ah! he is one of your idols, I suppose," said Lord Norbourne, with a slight approach to a sneer. "Youth is prone to admire; but it is odd how, in a few years, we discover the defects of our demigods...

He finds, not “demigods” but “ a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.

The 19-year-old right-winger — already dubbed Demigod — was set to play his first game with the Canadiens and the buzz in the city was off the charts.