Perhaps Scrooge & Marley were -in modern day’s term- repo men. This would account for the use of a warehouse as a safekeep for repossessed items. This occupation also parallels nicely with the cold, curmudgeon character of E. Scrooge. Being “men of business”, they may have diversified their shrewd dabblings to include many ventures.
I invite some vagueness in literature. Let your imagination fill in the details.
I for one am surprised at how many of the participants in this original thread are not only still around, but logged in right now.
The rest being zombies.
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Due to the subject matter and this thread’s extreme age, I am going to put this zombie back into its grave. Anyone who wishes to discuss this book and its characters may open a new thread in Cafe Society.
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