293. Lost Words of Jacob Marley, from "A Christmas Carol". Very Good.
I loved this last post of Seth Adam Smith. I believe you will also. The Lost Words of Jacob Marley NOVEMBER 17, 2014 / SETH ADAM SMITH One of my all-time favorite books is A Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens. I didn’t always like it. In fact, when I was much younger, I pretty much hated it. I felt like it was over-commercialized and overused during Christmas. A few years ago, while listening to an audio rendition of the book, I heard something that I felt like I had never heard before. The passage comes from that pivotal moment when Ebenezer Scrooge meets the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, now a chained and tormented soul, is lamenting the opportunities he lost to serve mankind. This is what happens next: “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. “Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. ...