THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: An urgently needed revision Now people have been talking about rewriting the above mentioned poem for years in an effort to remove the mention of Santa smoking a pipe (lets for the sake of arguments call them joy-suckers), but I believe a far more essential edit is needed. Lets look at the first verse: Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a mouse My issue is with the word stirring - this word implies a period of light sleep from which the protagonist is gradually waking. In other words sleep had in fact been on Christmas Eve. This obviously bears no relation to an actual household that has children, as indeed our author claims to be a part of of. My children dont suffer from stirring they suffer from bolt-awake-shaking-in-excitement-wetting-the-bed-in-anticipation-couldnt-be-more-awake-if-they-tried-ness. I would suggest that the line be changed to: Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a child was sleeping Literally none, never mind the damned mouse
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:41:44 +0000
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