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As promised, here is the thread to post thoughts about Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol, Stave One.
I think my favorite part of Stave One is Fred's description of Christmas. But the best line is the one describing Scrooge "But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" I don't know if a string of adjectives has ever been used to more effect than here.
I think my favorite part of Stave One is Fred's description of Christmas. But the best line is the one describing Scrooge "But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" I don't know if a string of adjectives has ever been used to more effect than here.