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A Christmas Dream & Other Christmas Stories

door Louisa May Alcott

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It’s probably not customary to review Christmas stories in the middle of May, but they are never really about the weather, you know; they tend to be about family and magic and such—they cannot be all circumstances, you know. (Don’t think me too much of a freak, though: according to my records here I finished reading this book on a December 9th; I just had nothing to say about it then.) I remember the book being very wistful about the cold scientificication of the world, the bookification of all things—it reminds me a little of a scene in Tolstoy’s Resurrection where that cold scientism and tepid sentimentalism together create Victorian society, you know. At the time it’s like—Great, but I’m sure this is your thing, on you, about Victorian home & garden delusion, and God knows another HomeGoods knick-knack or tchotchke—and that terribly contradictory pop music, I’ll be good…. By doing what I want!—isn’t going to Solve Life & Bring Back Jesus, This Time, For Good. So, I guess that was my initial reaction: not that I hated it, just that there was little to say, like there’s little to say about a painting of a rose.

But I was reading this book about Fra Angelico, the Renaissance monk painter, (about whom there is little to say, unless you believe in the scientification of all things, but that’s fine), and eventually you cannot escape dwelling on the Virgin & Child, you know, the Holy Mother….

I guess that that is what Louisa was concerned we were losing, and probably we have or still are, or whatever—thanks to a lot of people, He Who Must Not Be Named obviously not being guiltless, unless you’re a very stable neurotic, you know, in which case it’s nice, it’s fine, keep moving, nothing to see here—and certainly I have lost it, if I ever had it, as I am not really a relationship person but an almost clinical introvert, which is not something you can change…. And I do not suppose that I shall ever marry, or—arrogance of arrogance—Become A Better Parent Than My Parents Were, So There!—so, yeah. I do not say that I regret it, or shall regret it, the way I shall regret gradually and inevitably losing physical fitness with extreme age…. No regret, no, at least none compared with the regret I would feel for lining the pockets of my children’s therapists and rearing new and ever-more-alienated generations, no net regret. Inevitably all over the world fertility has declined and must, so I suppose we all lose something, but it’s not like my family is going extinct or that the world needs me to have more than it has given me: probably in the end, dear LT, I shall have a great deal more of posterity than I could ever ever say I deserve….

But I can only assume that something is lost in the trade, and that makes Louisa’s words intelligible to me now. On the other hand, we perhaps only Go Into The World to heal our childhood, and nothing I think can take that from us, though that of course is a gift. I’m sure that, as things are fine now, that Jesus is capable of loosening and tying whatever needs fixing at the appropriate time.
  goosecap | May 14, 2022 |
This is a charming collection of children's Christmas stories. ( )
  ChelseaVK | Dec 10, 2021 |
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