Friday, December 15, 2017

Quenching the Spirit (Charles Dickens)



   What, exclaimed the Ghost, would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? …. [T]hough Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light:  which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.  

--Charles Dickens, 
A Christmas Carol, 
Stave 2 


Image source:  John Leach, Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits, steel engraving, 1843.  Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.  (http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/carol/4.html)
     

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