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"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
Silence is also cheap, and so Marius liked it. But Marius is wary, Marius is not young, and Marius should not speak of himself so, as if the third person excuses lack of vision.
Forgive me, these are great tidings. Christmas is a Christian thing, and old, and so old was the Jewish rite when it was young, and older still the Yule that precedes them both.
No, we are not all men of Christmas - but I trust that we are all men of the New Year, shall grow to like it.
My boys, make your paints ready. I think little of idleness and shall not suffer you idle.
[ooc: please to be pretending it is past-sunset ;.; time zones make it impossible for me to post for him at a proper hour, at the moment.]