My Word with Douglas E. Welch

Relive one of New Bedford Whaling Museum’s most beloved events with a twist! The annual Moby-Dick Marathon takes place each winter and runs for 25 consecutive hours. Melville aficionados, scholars, and others enter a lottery months in advance for their chance to be a part of the reading. In this re-imagined, virtual event, a past marathon will be released in nightly, hour-long segments. Get cozy as you listen or follow along from the comfort of your home.

“If there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man’s death,” said Scrooge, quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit! I beseech you.”

The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.

“Let me see some tenderness connected with a death,” said Scrooge; “or that dark chamber, Spirit, which we left just now, will be for ever present to me.”

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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Previously:

• The case of this unhappy man might be my own
• Are there no prisons?
• The boy is Ignorance. The girl is Want.
• …and taught Scrooge his precepts
• His offenses carry their own punishment
• There was nothing of high mark in this.
• Bob Cratchit’s house
• Come in and know me better man!
• …shadows of the things that have been.
• What Idol has displaced you?
• He has the power to render us happy or unhappy…
• …tuned like fifty stomachaches.
• It’s old Fezziwig alive again!
• Too much getting up by candlelight…
• The school is not quite deserted…
• “What”, exclaimed the Ghost…
• The First Ghost
• Mankind was my business…
• Speak comfort to me
• It is a ponderous chain!
• There’s more of gravy than of grave about you…
• Ask me who I was…
• The chain Marley drew…
• …double locked himself in…
• Darkness is cheap…
• Marley’s Face
• He lived in chambers…
• …even more congenial frost.
• …decrease the surplus population…
• …open their shut-up hearts freely…
• Boiled with his own pudding…
• …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…
• Even the blind men’s dogs
• A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.