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I've been reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to get into the Christmas spirit. Guy is kinda wordy though:
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the cheif mourner. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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 pice of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdon 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.
And it goes on like that for another page and a half. Don't get me wrong, I love Charles Dickens. The man's a genius and its a shame his books aren't more commenly read, but I just think the man's a bit wordy. No wonder people just watch the Muppets version.
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I kinda want to see Brokeback Mountain. Does that make me a bad Mormon? I also HAVE to see the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe movie. It comes out this Friday. I hope the allagorical spin that C.S. Lewis wrote wasn't taken out of the movie version. Liberal Hollywood Bastards.
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the cheif mourner. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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 pice of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdon 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.
And it goes on like that for another page and a half. Don't get me wrong, I love Charles Dickens. The man's a genius and its a shame his books aren't more commenly read, but I just think the man's a bit wordy. No wonder people just watch the Muppets version.
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I kinda want to see Brokeback Mountain. Does that make me a bad Mormon? I also HAVE to see the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe movie. It comes out this Friday. I hope the allagorical spin that C.S. Lewis wrote wasn't taken out of the movie version. Liberal Hollywood Bastards.