Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is 168 years old this month. Heather owns every version of the movie she could get her hands on. She plays them all year and can repeat every line. My favorite quote from the original text is this: “The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant whom it saw below upon a door-step. The misery with them all was clearly that they sought to interfere for good in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.”
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