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

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The Banquet of Miserableness

The short story was unpublished in an athorn's lifetime. It seems likee the whole idea is to show that in the one day of the year where it seems like everything you know is guided by the creator, to be happy,. To create a kind of a testament to a lack of providence in the world, right? And we hear about three dinners, and thenita, and this happens for a number of years.

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