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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to Down to Sleep. This is a special episode with relaxing rain |
0:06.9 | sounds in the background to help you get a good night's rest. Thanks for listening. Thanks for |
0:12.1 | supporting the podcast. Enjoy a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book to raise the ghost of an idea, |
0:27.1 | which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, |
0:34.4 | or with me. |
0:36.4 | May it haunt their houses pleasantly, |
0:39.6 | and no one wish to lay it. |
0:43.2 | Their faithful friend and servant, |
0:45.9 | seedy, stave one, |
0:50.0 | Marley's ghost. |
0:53.0 | Marley was dead, to begin with. |
0:56.6 | There is no doubt whatever about that. |
1:00.1 | The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. |
1:10.0 | Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name was good upon change, for anything |
1:15.5 | that he chose to put his hand to. Old Mali was as dead as a doornail. Mind, I don't mean to say |
1:24.2 | that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a |
1:29.5 | doornail. I might have been inclined myself to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece |
1:36.8 | of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile, and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, |
1:47.4 | all the country is done for. |
1:50.1 | You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a doorknail. |
1:59.6 | Scrooge knew he was dead. |
2:01.7 | Of course he did. |
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