In the beginning was the Word. ...

In the beginning was the Word.

likewise they said. And definitely singular. Was. Word. "They" being the grimy Sunday sect where us children were delivered for safekeeping while (so I later deduced) the mummies and daddies - the house to themselves - went at it hammer and tongs to result before it was "time to proceed and pick up their little angels."

Not that I had a daddy - well, sole Him, Big Daddy, Old Chief in extent Beard up there, peering, prying, and poking about in the damp little orifices of my sinning, tut-tut-tutting and a-shaking of His dreadful grapples over me. Oh ...