WEIRDLAND: 'Happy as an angel' - Happy New Year's Eve!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

'Happy as an angel' - Happy New Year's Eve!

James Stewart as George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
Marilyn Monroe giving us away the spirit of ChristmasJoan Crawford looking at the Christmas wreath of her doorIda Lupino with a Christmas wreathIda Lupino carrying boxes of gifts.
Claire Trevor under a Christmas tree holding a heart figureKaty Perry - Pink Christmas treeBergdorf store - Christmas decoration windows Redheads Eat Men Like Air Christmas Stocking

"He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions,
that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his
call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the
Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.

`They are not torn down.' cried Scrooge, folding one of
his bed-curtains in his arms,' they are not torn down, rings
and all. They are here -- I am here -- the shadows of the
things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will
be. I know they will.'

His hands were busy with his garments all this time;
turning them inside out, putting them on upside down,
tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every
kind of extravagance.

`I don't know what to do.' cried Scrooge, laughing and
crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of
himself with his stockings. `I am as light as a feather, I
am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I
am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to
everybody. A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo
here. Whoop. Hallo.'
- 'A Christmas Carol', by Charles Dickens
(19 December 1843).

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