Here is a delicious short story by Edith Wharton: The Lady's Maid's Bell. It's a ghost story, first published in 1902.
Now I'm going to take my migraine to bed. We go to Mississippi tomorrow to bring F back for Christmas break.
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at this time of year it's also always good to READ "The Christmas Carol." it's a great Christmas/ghost story. (i do admit to being partial to the George C. Scott version as well.)
Yeah, that's always a good "what's it all about" read. I think the last one I watched was the one with Patrick Stewart, and somehow Capt. Picard as Scrooge just didn't do it for me.
yeah, the stewart one was pretty accurate to the text, i believe. but it didn't have the feel of victorian england that the scott version did.
compare the the counting house in each--the house in the stewart one is nearly empty--how is that a place of business? why would scrooge waste business time keeping his house empty?
the house in Scott's version is piled with ledgers, books, and stuff--it has a feel that the newer version didn't--the newer version was too shiny--in a modern entertainment way.
i suppose i should be giving credit to the directors and not the actors.
That's why a lot of times I prefer to read rather than watch the movie. Dickens didn't give a lot of detail about things like that counting house, or Bob Cratchit's family's circumstances. His intended audience didn't need them. He just painted a few deft strokes and they filled in. Sometimes when I watch a movie based on period literature I'm afraid of having my ideas of what things might have been like contaminated by somebody else's ideas, that might be less accurate.
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