For Christmas week 1 0f 7:
For Christmas week I've decided to put up some real good stuff focused on the season. This is Paul Auster's 'Auggie Wren's Christmas', it was commissioned by the New York Times for their Christmas edition 1990. Here's a sentence from it, "If you don't take the time to look, you'll never manage to see anything". Literature needs good readers as much as it needs good writers. It was the first piece of overt fiction commissioned for the Newspaper. Of course there had been plenty of covert fiction commissioned for the Newspaper before. I was going to write an essay accompanying but I'm slightly pushed for time. Give or take it was to be about the role of stories at Christmas, it would have been essentially about how season is formed around a story about a boy being born in a manger. I would have said how it is one of the greatest stories of all time. I would have said it is probably only second to the story of alchemy, how we turned paper and digital symbols into the worth of most things, for example a horse. That's the gist. As I said I don't have time to write it. Time is money and talk is cheap. That's a bit sad, eh; everything is worth money and money is worth nothing. What the Dickens is that all about!? Humbug in't it.
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