The part of the Christmas Past sequence in Dickens' book they usually skip past now, where Old Scrooge sees himself as a kid reading and actually physically sees all the fictional characters his younger self is imagining and starts squeeing like a fanboy That still slaps
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Also adds to my theory that he is imagining all the spirits and ghosts in a night of grief and regret.
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There's certainly a reading of this story that if Marley and the Three Ghosts aren't real, then they're a reflection of Scrooge's tragic flaw -- living entirely in his own head -- ironically becoming his salvation
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That long, long neglected part of his head -- his capacity for empathetic imagination -- suddenly, at the last moment, roaring back to full life to try to save him
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After all The terrible truth that Marley's Ghost tells him, and that the Ghost of Christmas Future shows him, is something he already knows He already saw everything that's going to happen to him happen to Marley before He was at his lonely empty funeral as the only mourner
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He knows that Marley died and came to nothing and now there's nothing left of him in the world because his life was a gigantic waste Nobody cares that he's dead, a lot of people don't even know he's dead, *people accidentally address Scrooge as Marley*
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It's, arguably, the kind of knowledge whose implications you can only force yourself to ignore for so long
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Replying to @arthur_affect
"Whose Grave Is That?"https://youtu.be/lUyKpHvI_bg
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