festive cheer: what the Dickens...?

here’s a witty, if invented, twist on how a genuine Christmas classic came to be

There have been many, many movie adaptations of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol — at least one of which I’m sure to get around to recommending to you before the end of the month — but here’s one that sidesteps all those depressing poor people and woke calls for social justice* in favor of something lighter. (*Yes, I’m being sarcastic.)

In The Man Who…