Re: The BOZ Internet List

Charles Dickens (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Thu, 7 May 1998 11:30:49 -0100 

My Dear Mr Glendinning,

  Your thoughts are ingenious but my thinking was simpler than you surmise.
I wanted Scrooge to endure what seemed to him a protracted ordeal, but to
emerge from it in time to practise the lessons it taught him.  He would have
been unable to keep Christmas as it ought to be kept, had his ordal lasted
until 27th of December.

Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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>Dear Mr McCarthy:
>
>...by any other name I would still smell as sweet.
>
>I have a question for you which I shall also pose to Mr. Boz: In
>"Christmas Carol," when the ghost of Jacob Marley tells Ebeneezer
>Scrooge he will be visited by three spirits, he says the visits will
>occur over three days.  When Ebeneezer wakes up from his encounter with
>the ghost of Christmas-yet-to-come, it is miraculously Christmas Day,
>"...the spirits have done it all in one night!"
>
>It seems to me this is symbolic of Christ when He said, "As Jonah was
>three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the son
>of man..."
>
>Is there anything to this or is there another explanation?
>
>--Charles Glendinning
>
>
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>>Sorry, Charles Glendinning,
>>
>>      I misspelled your name without re-checking.
>>
>>Patrick McCarthy
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