Has man, having come of age, ceased to be a sinner? Has he ceased to be limited and mortal?’ R. P. C. HANSON The Honest to God Debate ed. DAVID L. EDWARDS I ‘My darling,’ wrote Aysgarth later that week after another scorching session in Chancton Wood. ‘HORRORS! jack Ryder, who’s the editor of the Church Gazette, rang me up this morning and said the rumour’s reached London that I’m planning to install a machine for French-letters in the Cathedral churchyard! I said: "I know I defended the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover but this accusation’s ridiculous — and what’s more, you know it!" Jack brayed with laughter and said: "Okay, spill the beans and I’ll try to print a report which doesn’t teeter into pornography." So I explained that I was in the process of applying for a faculty to install a work of art in the churchyard, and then I dictated a dignified paragraph about how the Dean and Chapter had commissioned from the celebrated sculptress Harriet March a work entitled "Modern Man in Search of God".
