The reason Marley is "dead to begin with" is that this novella was actually written by believers in spiritualism, not by Charles Dickens the skeptical lover of ghost stories. Or this is what my 15 years of intensive, independent research has revealed to me. The original authors of "A Christmas Carol," according to those research results, were an American couple named Mathew and Abby Whittier. Of course, if a student put this on an exam, he or she would be flunked for it (and probably called into the office for a parent-teacher conference). But it is the upcoming generation who will be more open to the possibility that all of Academia has been fooled by Charles Dickens' lies, the lies of his publicist John Forster, and the lies of organizations like the Dickens Fellowship who have enforced the official myth.
The reason Marley is "dead to begin with" is that this novella was actually written by believers in spiritualism, not by Charles Dickens the skeptical lover of ghost stories. Or this is what my 15 years of intensive, independent research has revealed to me. The original authors of "A Christmas Carol," according to those research results, were an American couple named Mathew and Abby Whittier. Of course, if a student put this on an exam, he or she would be flunked for it (and probably called into the office for a parent-teacher conference). But it is the upcoming generation who will be more open to the possibility that all of Academia has been fooled by Charles Dickens' lies, the lies of his publicist John Forster, and the lies of organizations like the Dickens Fellowship who have enforced the official myth.