Letter: Charles Dickens had the answer
(Kerry Brown | Bleecker Street Films file photo) Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens, left) conjures up his new character, Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), in the biographical comedy-drama "The Man Who Invented Christmas."
In the Sept. 2 Public Forum, Dan Mylecraine told us all about how we need to “rid ourselves of homeless scourge.” Perhaps we could “send them to the desert.”
Well, Mr. Mylecraine, I am betting that Topaz is no longer available. Thankfully.
I think that Charles Dickens penned the very best reply to this kind of thinking in 1843. In “A Christmas Carol,” the Ghost of Christmas Present says to Scrooge, “Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child [Tiny Tim]. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
We’ll just leave it right there.
Tom Lewis, Sandy
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