You ever think about the fact that A Christmas Carol was doing the same Nightmare Before Christmas shtick almost 200 years earlier A Halloween-y spoopy story for the sake of teaching "the true meaning of Christmas" via the macabre
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(Owen Meany is right, of course most of us think the scariest Ghost is the one who knows what's going to happen, the inevitable consequences coming down the pike But, shit The older you get, the less scared you are of that And the more you're scared of his opposite)
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(You remember Don Draper's mantra, "This didn't happen"? The Ghost of Christmases Past is the Ghost who tells you "Yes, IT DID HAPPEN" The idea of a total recall pill, of having to live through all the stuff that happened AGAIN and know NONE of it can be changed That's hell)
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Christmas Present has probably the most gut punching scene for me when he reveals from his cloak humanity's children, Want and Ignorance and immediately throws Scrooge's words about prisons and workhouses back at Scrooge.
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I want to do a stage production of it where the Spirit reveals Want and Ignorance and when Scrooge asks who's children they are he replies "Theirs, among many many other parents" and just points at the audience as the audience lights suddenly snap on.
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