Your annual reminder that there are many reasons to read A Christmas Carol, regardless of your religious views.
1) It's really good.
2) It (like The Sound of Music and some of my other favorite works) is a really great way to screen people for excessive and annoying cynicism.
1) It's really good.
2) It (like The Sound of Music and some of my other favorite works) is a really great way to screen people for excessive and annoying cynicism.
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But you lost me with The Sound of Music.
Thank you for the post.
At the end he becomes kind and good for the sake of others, not just because he ‘found Jesus’
Thanks. Will have to check it out.
E.g.: "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato."
The world is just full of occasions for quoting A Christmas Carol.
So I will almost always say yes to the Muppets!
(*Exclusions apply, obviously.)
With Albert finney.
My absolute favorite rendition of the book!
The Christmas Carol tricks the Cratchet's of the world to hold out hope that someone rich may eventually take pity on them.
Placating the broken masses away from pitchforks will never be banned.
https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Christmas-Carol-Simon-Schuster-Edition-Audiobook/B002V1AGEG?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&bp_o=true&language=en_US&source_code=GPAPP30DTRIAL5480813240005&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA9667BhDoARIsANnamQYHOeLjCgB0mOVQuL7TEv601Y7Y-3lUZB6VbE2h_tQTqSAVEJse0zAaAkfdEALw_wcB