Sermon discussion

Last Sunday my friend, Joe, was installed as an associate pastor. We met the Friday before at Twain's to discuss this and to drink beer and to read over sermons and drink beer. This is Joe's technique. Notice the economy of motion. From the moment the glass is lifted from the table there is no doubt: beer is being consumed.
You may point out to me that the beer glass becomes a water glass, as if that were some kind of inconsistency, as if my montage lacked continuity. Well it's like in the gospels where Herakles cleans out the Augean stables with a butter knife and other places where Theseus rescues the Minotaur from the wicked witch after a long sleep in a Procrustean bed - which in ancient times was the most comfortable of all beds and now - not so much.