episode_0067

christmas. The most grand and joyous holiday in Christian culture.

Children do not cry, adults enjoy dinner, young people love, and stores sparkle with colorful decorations – this is the work that created a colorful and cheerful Christmas tradition.

It was ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens.

Mr. Kindersley, who had turned the last page of the manuscript of ‘A Christmas Carol’ he was reading, muttered in a voice that seemed to have lost his soul.

“After reading this novel, I feel like I was wasting precious time called Christmas… .”

“You’ve been very busy so far. I can’t help it.”

“If the author had given me this novel for Christmas, it would have been the best Christmas gift of my life! Ugh, I shouldn’t have rested then.”

“If that were the case, you wouldn’t have received this manuscript?”

“That’s true too… Ahhh!”

Mr. Kindersley suddenly screamed and pulled out his own head.

He then took a long breath as if feeling a little relieved, then returned to his usual young businessman self and continued.

“By the way, writer?”

“Yes. president. Was there something wrong with the manuscript?”

“No! It’s perfect this time too! It really was a novel that felt like a dream… This novel… Wouldn’t it be better to publish it ahead of Christmas rather than publishing it now? Apparently, since it is a novel with a Christmas theme… I thought readers would be able to sympathize a little more that way.”

“Ah.”

Certainly, as the theme of the work was thematic, it would have been able to attract more readers if published before Christmas.

To publish now, just after Christmas… Because it felt a bit like an afterthought. In fact, seasonal products start selling a season early.

but.

What I was trying to do was not to take advantage of the holiday called ‘Christmas’.

“Still, wouldn’t you be just as excited? You will be able to wait and prepare for Christmas for a year.”

“That’s… But, ”

I was trying to ‘create’ a new holiday called ‘Christmas’ in this world.

In the process, I hoped that many people would think of Christmas. I hoped that I would feel regretful that I did not enjoy it enough, recall old memories of Christmas, ask my friends what Christmas was like, and come to the conclusion, ‘This is what Christmas is like.’

So when next Christmas approaches.

I hoped that everyone would prepare for Christmas in a grand way and enjoy a more colorful and cheerful Christmas than ever before.

Because Christmas was that kind of day.

It couldn’t be called Christmas if the streets couldn’t be covered in carols and decorations.

“Isn’t it fun just to imagine it? Imagine a year where everyone is looking forward to the next Christmas. Children do not cry, adults are lost in memories as they reflect on Christmas traditions in the study, young people boast that they will have a more splendid Christmas than anyone else, and merchants smile at the thought of selling Christmas goods—and so the whole year goes by. The prepared Christmas covering the capital of the empire.”

“Writer, you don’t have that kind of taste… . Aren’t you planning on only reading books on Christmas?”

“The boss knows me very well.”

“Hehe. Still, I think the author’s vision of Christmas will be very beautiful… .”

It will definitely be beautiful. Because Christmas is beautiful, many creative works in the 21st century have used the snowy Christmas Eve as their background, depicting stories that are more romantic and childish than we could dare imagine.

Isn’t it really childish to even imagine?

Christmas Eve with snow. A street sparkling with colorful lights. An old streetlight standing at the end of the street. Two people chase each other across a colorful street and confess their love under a dark streetlight.

It’s so childish that it makes me cringe.

– “Isn’t it better because it’s childish?”

As expected, there was a story that was childish and good.

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One day in the New Year, after Christmas, a Christmas carol was published.

The news that Homer’s new work had been published quickly spread throughout the empire. Now, it wasn’t even that new, but—.

“Merry Christmas, everyone! May the whole world have a happy new year!”

“It feels like I’ve become Scrooge… . Why have I been living so indifferently for so long?”

The novel published this time was ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens.

Even people who were familiar with literature and had developed a tolerance for ‘overindulgence’ could not help but be captivated by the Christmas atmosphere of A Christmas Carol.

Even though I clicked my tongue at Scrooge’s cruelty, I felt as if my heart was being ripped out as I witnessed the emaciated children and Scrooge’s future.

“I will never be like Scrooge!”

“When people become cruel to others, it is a sin against God! The key to heaven lies in kindness and goodness! Let’s all help each other! Let’s listen to each other and imagine each other’s happiness! Creating a better future through good intentions is a privilege given to us by God!”

that… In fact, it was not that different from the role of a fairy tale. In the sense that it recommends good and cautions against evil.

‘A Christmas Carol’ was a novel containing childish and cliché themes of encouragement and punishment.

Some critics criticized A Christmas Carol for this reason. It is a novel that goes against the times and is full of outdated ideas.

and.

“Homer is the name of this era! It is you critics who deny the divinity of Homer who are going against the times!”

“What.”

After experiencing a ‘conversation’ with the Homeric believers, I changed my opinion in an instant.

However, these reactions alone could not fully explain the influence of the novel ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Christmas carols.

“Director Priest!”

“Hehe, sister. Please do not run in the hallway as it is dangerous. Wouldn’t the children watch and learn?”

“Well, that is─, the nobles in the council─.”

“Are you donating this time too? Well, we don’t have anything in need, so let’s talk to the church and ask for donations to go to the workhouse─.”

“You came to volunteer in person!”

“… Yes?”

“Please hold our children’s hands and listen to their stories now! Some nobles even hugged the children’s backs and said they were sorry─.”

It moved people’s hearts.

It made me feel shame for my selfishness and guilt for my indifference.

It made us empathize with the sadness of others.

therefore.

“Director Priest, maybe our children too─.”

“… … .”

“Later, when you graduate from nursery school, you can go to Congress… Wouldn’t it be possible to enter the House of Commons? ?”

It made people think of other people as ‘people’.

“… Let’s pray. No, first I have to go meet the grateful people who came to volunteer. Let’s hurry.”

“You told me not to run in the hallway, right?”

“Hmm. Now that I think about it, I think it would be okay to run in the hallway sometimes.”

“… Hehe, yes!”

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“Master, reports have arrived from the two foundations you operate.”

“Hmm? I’ll check it later, so leave it there.”

“Yes. It is said that the number of donors this quarter has increased several times compared to last year. It is probably due to the influence of Christmas carols.”

“Really?”

“Aren’t you surprised?”

“No, well, I had already expected it… .”

The influence of the work A Christmas Carol is… It was so overwhelming that it is no exaggeration to say that it affected the entire society.

It was ‘Charles Dickens’ who created the culture of ‘Christmas’ on Earth in his previous life, and ‘A Christmas Carol’ was a work with a particularly strong social accusatory character.

To exaggerate a bit.

“The work “A Christmas Carol” is a masterpiece that made Christmas a symbol of peace and harmony.”

I was able to talk like this.

‘Christmas’ is a work by ‘Charles Dickens.’

“Yes?”

“No, well, it will be like that in the future.”

“Is that so? It seems that you value this work especially highly.”

“As far as social influence is concerned, yes.”

Any kind of vicious hatred or terrible malice cannot be thought of at the moment when Christmas carols are sung. No one can be indifferent to others at Christmas. The Salvation Army’s charity pot, often seen around the station at Christmas, was one such symbol.

There were many other examples symbolizing peace at Christmas. Christmas was the most grand holiday in Christian culture, and since the era of imperialism, Christian culture has dominated half the world.

But to give the most dramatic example.

also.

There will be an incident called the Christmas Truce.

“Are you saying that when Christmas carols sound, warring soldiers lay down their weapons and become friends?”

“Uh.”

“Hmm, no matter how much it is a novel, if you write such a story, you will probably be criticized for being too fictional.”

“Puh-huh, right?”

okay.

I also think that Earth writers write stories too roughly.