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   Mack A. Damia to wlahearn@gmail.com   
   Re: "Scrooge" (A Christmas Carol) 1951   
   26 Dec 23 02:09:00   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 22:41:26 -0800 (PST), "wlah...@gmail.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Monday, December 25, 2023 at 9:30:49?PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >> Buzz off Billy. Your comments are shyte. Same as your brain matter.   
   >Biff off, cultural moron.   
      
   Bugger off Billy boy-boy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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