What was Dickens really doing when he wrote A Christmas Carol?

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"The holiday season is no longer black Friday or bust, " he wrote, "it's really becoming Black November" as retailers shovel out deep discounts in anticipation of black Friday.

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"I don't really want to see America again, " he wrote.

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"For any of you that thought that he was going to get anything but 'Other than honorable' ... you really dont know jack about the military, " he wrote.

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"In so many ways, he was an adult, even then, with a kind of intense, fast intellect that really made me feel like he was part and parcel of the Internet society, " Doctorow wrote.

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