• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    Had a Christmas quiz at my work a couple of years ago, and the fact that I was “wrong” for saying there were four ghosts has lived rent free in my head every Christmas since.

    Marley, Past, Present, Future - just because hs’s not noted as “the ghost of” doesn’t mean he’s not a ghost!

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      6 if you count children Ignorance and Want, and if you want a real argument, are the “shadows” Scrooge sees in the past - ghosts? What about everyone in the future?

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        I suppose I should’ve been more specific in my comment, that it was about how many ghosts visited Scrooge - of which are the four I mentioned. The other ghosts are part of the apparitions presented by the visiting ghosts, rather than visitors themselves