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PRIEST Really, this is hopeless. I wanted to have a serious talk about right and wrong, and we are interrupted by these rowdy street urchins.
BION I remember those terrible, never-ending half-hours called ‘Search the Scriptures’.
MORIARTY You were a very naughty little boy, forever thinking about trash like Sherlock Holmes instead of the … er … er … ranks of …
BION I know – ‘prowl and prowl around’. We used to sing it ‘ppp’. Terribly exciting! And then ‘fff’, ‘Christians up and smite them’. I loved that bit. Was it Midian or Gideon? I forget.
MORIARTY There! Didn't I tell you? You should have learnt your scripture.
BION What did happen at the Reichenbach Falls?
MORIARTY I got dashed to bits, but we were all reunited again and went to Heaven.
BION How awful!
MORIARTY Yes. For a few aeons I was in reserve as a Solar Myth.
SEXTON Myth Whybrow.