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THIS PIECE IS BEEN HUGE FOR OVER 150 the English diaspora has told
The Tale of Ebeneezer Scrooge
A Christmas Carol is a nudge,
and a fascinating piece of Australian history.
Some could "afford" to be MERRY, some could even read. So Charles Dickens writing for his English-people, an artist and craftsman. He writes a piece to challenge general meaness, and the affectation, the pose 'cynicism'. Henry Lawson.
What's the big deal? - with pen 'n' ink and paper - creates a magic that travels generations, transcending time and place.
The Adam Sandler comedy " Click" with its spooky remote control, instead of ghosts and dreams, uses the Christmas Carol premise... if life were tv -if you could fast forward and rewind - would ya give a little more consideration some of ya 'good ideas' This is the magic that travels generations - transcending time and place.
Course back in Dickens's time the pommies fall out with the Irish People, and 'Found' Australia not with slaves but people fond of fair go and a good time.
"Nephew: Christmas a humbug? Scrooge: Merry Christmas? What right have you to be merry - you're poor enough" Nephew: What right have you to be slack? You're rich enough"
Scrooge: "Are there no prisons? No Social Security, no legal service? I support the aforementioned establishments and the poor must go there."
Good humour, and good spirits bring us... good times. Out come the red suits and plastic baubles and the Dickensian cynicism begins again today.
"It is a fair even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour." -Dickens Scrooge finally wakes up goin'- Gee! Never looked at it that way before!
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