Word: dicken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different. But both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Dicken's Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
Stewart wishes he had never been born, but then is shown what the town would have been like without him. As an allegory, it lacks the timelessness of something like Dicken's A Christmas Story, but as a film, but it's the kind of thing you could take your mother to see without blushing...