Marley was dead: to begin with.<\/p>\n
A Christmas Carol<\/em>, Charles Dickens<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n I love a story with a good moral, the type of story with a bad character who turns good;\u00a0 it’s a formula based on the possibility that no one is without hope.\u00a0 I read such stories to be spurred on.\u00a0 The film Groundhog Day<\/em> gives me the same buzz:\u00a0 Phil the weatherman is a modern Scrooge who cares for no one and shares nothing. Yet against their will, both Phil and Scrooge learn how good generosity can feel.\u00a0 Of course, my hopes are bridled by the fiction of Scrooge being shown, in one night<\/em>, the cause and effect of his misery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marley was dead: to begin with. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens ***** I love a story with a good moral, the type of story with a bad character who turns good;\u00a0 it’s a formula based on the possibility that no one is without hope.\u00a0 I read such stories to be spurred on.\u00a0 The film Groundhog … <\/p>\n