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   Mack A. Damia to wlahearn@gmail.com   
   Re: "Scrooge" (A Christmas Carol) 1951   
   25 Dec 23 18:30:45   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:23:19 -0800 (PST), "wlah...@gmail.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Monday, December 25, 2023 at 6:04:00?PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >> Okay, here's the rub:   
   >>   
   >> Towards the end of the film, Scrooge wakes up in bed tossing and   
   >> turning and grabbing the bed curtains, so we assume that he dreamed   
   >> the entire sequence of the three spirits.   
   >>   
   >> But when did he go to bed? He leaves work, tells the poor man to go   
   >> to debtor's prison, won't spend a half-penny for extra bread, sees   
   >> Marley's face in the door knob, sits by the fire and eats his soup or   
   >> gruel and then Marley makes an entrance and tells him he will be   
   >> visited by three spirits.   
   >>   
   >> When did he go to bed if he wakes up from the dream towards the end of   
   >> the film? Was Marley's face on the door knob part of the dream? How   
   >> could it have been?   
   >>   
   >> Enquiring minds want to know.   
   >   
   >You just won't stop embarrassing yourself.   
      
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