“The Grinch can’t steal the thing that bothers him most about Christmas, which is the singing, but he can steal everything else—and in stealing everything else, the Grinch is fairly sure he’s going to steal their singing, too. He’s going to prove them all a bunch of hypocrites. While the Grinch never makes a wager with God, he still reminds me of Satan in the book of Job. If the Whos lose all their stuff, they won’t be singing anymore—or so the Grinch believes.”
-from The Enduring Appeal of “The Grinch,” my latest for CiRCE
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 