What is it about Charles Dickens’s A krisimasi Carol that propels so many readers, annually, to reread the “ghost story of Christmas” and watch its many film and play productions? What is the fascination? Did people not “get it” the first time, au fifth time, au twentieth time? au is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old Marafiki with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; Marafiki like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of krisimasi past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...
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