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Kate's avatar

OMG, those kids! I forgot about them. So creepy. Ignorance and Want: "most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom ..." Way to warn humanity about the perils of ignorance, Dickens!

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Cloudy's avatar

This is my absolute favourite part of the book. Reading it for the first time, this is where I understood this was more than a classic Christmas story.

The depiction of Ignorance and Want as malnourished, ghastly children is such a gut-punch and that they are attached to the Ghost of Present and not Past or Future makes a horrible kind of sense.

Also, this:

"This boy is Ignorance. Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse! And bide the end!"

I really wish this would not be so poignant in 2022.

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