Stave Five or The End of It. JRR Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit “ Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to hear are soon told about, and not much to listen too; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a good […]
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Stave 4, The Last of the Spirits. The last stroke of midnight had cease to vibrate and there appeared before Scrooge a figure “shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one out stretched hand. If the hand wasn’t there it would […]
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Stave Two of A Christmas Carol is titled “The First of the Three Spirits. When the Stave opens we find Scrooge in bed. He wakens to the sound of the clock striking 12. He is bewildered by this as he knows it was after two when he went to bed. He even wonders if something […]
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“Marley was dead to begin with.” These six words may be, at least, one of the most famous lines in all of literature. In 1843 Charles Dickens was short on funds. In order to help himself make the money he needed he came up with the idea of a Christmas book. He was considering the […]
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