Where is everybody? The response for my Christmas Carol Contest has been less than overwhelming. To recap : In celebration of Charles Dickens’ timely ghost story A Christmas Carol, I’m giving away two of Shakespeare’s own ghost stories – Manga Macbeth and Manga Julius Caesar. To get in on the action, just email me and tell me the Shakespeare reference in Dickens’ original that from what I can tell most of the movie/tv/audio versions seem to snip out for some reason. Contest ends at end of day on Christmas Eve. For hopefully obvious reasons y’all will understand if I don’t get around to announcing the winners until after the holiday, however.
I think it’s just a difficult contest. All right, just for you I’ll re-read “A Christmas Carol.” It’s one of my favorites anyway. And I have always thought that Dickens is to prose as Shakespeare is to verse.
–Carl