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Hawthorne's The Christmas Banquet | The New Thinkery Ep. 75

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Isn't It a Christmas Story?

i don't think what would be added to or subtracted from the story if we tok a rad christmas to it. I think woud christmas more a even thanksgiving, which is an american holiday. There's no mention of jesus. And you go back to the sermon on the mount blessed are the meek. Blessed are those who wail. So these the the miserable. The first beatitudes are all the best human lives for those whowail. The best human life for those who are meek and miserable, the wretched of the earth. Andhe here you have the wretched ofthe earth sur assembling for a banquet. If they don't seem

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