'Too much for flesh and blood to bear'

This of course is the ironclad fall back defense. "I'm sorry, Your Honor, I should have kept my hands in my pocket and my pants zipped, but these twins were too much for flesh and blood to bear. And there were two of them!" "Hmm. Let me examine those pictures one more time.... Ms. Unhinged, please approach the bench with those pictures." "Your Honor, this is the hundred and thirty fifth time I've been asked to produce those pictures." "Yes, and this is the hundred and thirty sixth. Evidence needs to be examined carefully -- very carefully." Ms. Unhinged reluctantly lays the evidence in front of the judge. Some time passes... "Yes indeed, too much for flesh and blood to bear. Case dismissed." (If I recall correctly, the phrase was first used by Somerset Maugham and put into the mouths of one or his characters. He himself might have used it to describe what one of his biograohers writes was what Maugham once admiited was the peak sexual experience of his life . Happened in Saigon with a boy whom we would have to describe as "underaged." But "too much for flesh and blood to bear." Of course.) God makes beautiful boys but sometimes even He goes overboard. I should know. I've, uh, seen it. SR