Arnaldur      Grétarsson

Fór í þrítugsafmæli og kveðjupartí um helgina. Bæði voru hið mesta gaman, og vel heppnuð, utan lágmarks-fjörtjóns af völdum atvinnu heimilisleysingja.

Reyndar var helst til vel veitt á báðum stöðum og kallinn varð pínku sósaður.

Mér kom til hugar Macbeth, eftir William Shakespeare. Act 2, scene iii.:

Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX

MACDUFF
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed, That you do lie so late?

PORTER
'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock.
And drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially provoke?

PORTER
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery,
sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire,
but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much
drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery.
It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it
takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him;
makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion,
equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie,
leaves him.

MACDUFF
I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.

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Já, já. Porterinn er ágætis gæi.