Over our wine

 




Over our wine  see also "at the Palazzo" and "For the love of God Montressor"


     This one is also drawn from the brilliant short story by Edgar Allen Poe "the Cask of the Amontillado" that Greg committed to memory. We had listened to the spoken word record done by Basil Rathbone so many times Greg not only knew the words but the intonation of each statement. At this point the be-sotted Fortunato has been tricked into becoming chained to a wall in a niche where he was promised the prized Amontillado wine. The aggrieved Montresor seeking revenge for a series of insults is now bricking him into the space where he will slowly perish. As Forunato is coming to his senses and tries to make light of the jest.

 "But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato. The voice said—“Ha! ha! ha!—he! he! he!—a very good joke, indeed—an excellent jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo—he! he! he!—over our wine"

    This was one of a few quotation we would say to eachother when I would be visiting for an evening in the parlor of Francis. "we shall have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo" and then hesitate for "over our wine." And indeed we did. However neither one of us ever tasted Amontillado or lived in a palazzo.

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