Ummm it would help if I knew who Louie was.
The men joke quietly, and smile rather than laugh.
<span>It means that death is brief and doesn't last long, like a dream or a nap. He says that death will lose the battle because he might die, but he will live eternally, so death lost and it was nothing more than a short sleep that passes away. It ends with him telling to death that death will die and basically that he wins.</span>
<span>The word <u>colloquial</u>, derived from a Latin term meaning conversation, refers to the conversational diction inappropriate for most papers.</span>
