tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29179803.post5171671960682791577..comments2024-03-28T20:47:47.445-04:00Comments on Serene Musings: A Christmas CarolScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535260741343975445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29179803.post-20583884455375183882006-12-21T08:47:00.000-05:002006-12-21T08:47:00.000-05:00Oh God, not at all! Sure, he's making a commentar...Oh God, not at all! Sure, he's making a commentary on the state of his world--Hard Times is an example that comes to mind--but he's always doing it with a sort of tongue in cheek attitude. Even the names he gives his characters are a reflection of this at times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29179803.post-703157659608585762006-12-15T15:43:00.000-05:002006-12-15T15:43:00.000-05:00Yeah, I was surprised by how much dry humor there ...Yeah, I was surprised by how much dry humor there was in the book. I hadn't necessarily expected that. I guess I think of Dickens as rather dark and serious.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10535260741343975445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29179803.post-38915285462000441222006-12-15T15:27:00.000-05:002006-12-15T15:27:00.000-05:00I love A Christmas Carol. I've actually never rea...I love A Christmas Carol. I've actually never read a bad book by Dickens. They are all wonderful and whimsical and so full of wonderful irony. <br /><br />"Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com