The Miners

Inspired by the Chilean miner rescue, Massie digs up a Peter Cook classic:

Amy Davidson is more somber:

What came through the tube kept [the miners] fed, but what sustained them, and humbled everyone else, was the way they worked together, sang together, kept faith together. There were worries that it could turn into “The Lord of the Flies” down there; instead, it was more like a shining city deep beneath a hill. (Gomez, who set up a makeshift chapel, was the latter-day John Winthropwhose own most famous sermon was given on a ship.) When the news came that the miners were arguing about who would wait to go up last, it was hard not to come undone.