{"id":4502,"date":"2008-07-04T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2017-11-11T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:39:04","slug":"a-secret-shakespearean-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/a-secret-shakespearean-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Secret Shakespearean Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a shipping\/receiving clerk for a local art supply store, I always wanted to recite the <a href=\"v\" target=\"_blank\">Porter scene from <i>MacBeth<\/i><\/a> whenever a delivery driver rang the bell on the loading dock:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<h3>Macbeth, Act II, Scene III<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"6\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><i>Knocking within. Enter a Porter<\/i><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Porter:<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Here&#8217;s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. [<i>Knocking within<\/i>.] Knock, knock, knock! Who&#8217;s there, i&#8217; the name of Beelzebub? Here&#8217;s a farmer, that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty: come in time; have napkins enow about you; here you&#8217;ll sweat for&#8217;t. [<i>Knocking within<\/i>.] Knock, knock! Who&#8217;s there, in th&#8217;other devil&#8217;s name?  Faith, here&#8217;s an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God&#8217;s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator. [<i>Knocking within<\/i>.] Knock, knock, knock! Who&#8217;s there? Faith, here&#8217;s an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose. [<i>Knocking within<\/i>.] Knock, knock; never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too cold for hell. I&#8217;ll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. [<i>Knocking within<\/i>.] Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter. [<i>Opens the gate<\/i>.] <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, by the time I would have gotten that out, the truck driver would have come in the front door looking for me and swearing.  Also, it would have weirded out a commercial sales guy if he was in the warehouse pulling and order or prepping it for the courier, but that would have been a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those were busy days.  It wasn&#8217;t until I was a printer, operating a two color offset printing press for hours on end, that I got the chance to spend days memorizing pieces, like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.amherst.edu\/ccm\/prufrock.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/a>&#8220;.  My recitation of which (or the appreciation of my recitation of which by an English teacher mother-in-law-to-be) and a timely hard drive replacement secured me permission to marry my beautiful wife.  The porter scene might have worked in that situation, too, but I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t take the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a shipping\/receiving clerk for a local art supply store, I always wanted to recite the Porter scene from MacBeth whenever a delivery driver rang the bell on the loading dock: Macbeth, Act II, Scene III &nbsp; Knocking within. Enter a Porter &nbsp; Porter: Here&#8217;s a knocking indeed! 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