Best.Quote.Ever: Media Via

I found this while looking for information reading the life of Dorothy L. Sayers:

"What a shame that she did not convert C S Lewis and his friends to motor-cycling. I can see them now, cruising down the road seven abreast, at the sacred speed of 153 miles per hour [a reference to numerological speculations about John 21:11], shrieking their dreaded war-cry of Media Via! They might have permanently altered the history of Anglicanism."

[Note: Media Via means "the middle of the road." Via Media means "the middle road." The latter, but occasionally the former, has been used by various writers to describe the Anglican communion, avoiding on the one hand the errors of Roman Catholicism and on the other the opposite errors of radical Protestantism.]

--The comment in question was made after noting that in her late twenties, Sayers fell in love with and had a child with a man who road a motorcycle. I’m not sure about the motorcycle gang part, though. I’ve never heard that bit before, and I wonder if his description of that atmosphere is exaggerated.