Every wonderful Gosie chapter has a line or two that make me laugh out loud. In this case it was:
“There was no scenario involving a shrine,” said Angle.
“There absolutely was a scenario involving a shrine.”
😂
I think I love it because I can't think of any real-life scenario in which that exchange could take place.
The cathedral setting of the new adventure is making me think of this Betjeman poem 😄
Hymn
The Church's Restoration
In eighteen-eighty-three
Has left for contemplation
Not what there used to be.
How well the ancient woodwork
Looks round the Rect'ry hall,
Memorial of the good work
Of him who plann'd it all.
He who took down the pew-ends
And sold them anywhere
But kindly spared a few ends
Work'd up into a chair.
O worthy persecution
Of dust! O hue divine!
O cheerful substitution,
Thou varnishéd pitch-pine!
Church furnishing! Church furnishing!
Sing art and crafty praise!
He gave the brass for burnishing
He gave the thick red baize,
He gave the new addition,
Pull'd down the dull old aisle,
— To pave the sweet transition
He gave th' encaustic tile.
Of marble brown and veinéd
He did the pulpit make;
He order'd windows stainéd
Light red and crimson lake.
Sing on, with hymns uproarious,
Ye humble and aloof,
Look up! and oh how glorious
He has restored the roof!