Oh, when you said "Beyond the Fringe", I thought maybe you were going to reprint Alan Bennett's notorious sermon on the text "For my brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man." The transcript I found online is from the TV performance, which is a little different from the earlier radio one (no mention of "that grand Old Testament prophet, Nehemiah") but it has a section that's even more a propos:
"Perhaps, I might say the same thing in a different way by quoting you those words of that grand old poet, W.E. Henley**, who said: "When that one great scorer (1) comes to mark against your name, it matters not (2) who won or lost, but how you played the game, but how you played the game …" Words, very meaningful and significant for us here together tonight. Words we might do very much worse than to (3) consider. And I use this word consider advisedly (4) , because I’m using it, you see in its original Greek sense of con-sider (5) , of putting oneself in the way of thinking about … to put ourselves in the way of thinking about what we ought to be putting ourselves in the way of thinking about."
I don't know what it says about me that I find the little passage about Russell, Moore, and the basket of apples, to be hilarious!
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