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A Christmas Coral: Great Books That Never Were 🪸
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a famous Charles Dickens novella from 1843. It is not as good as the Muppet Christmas Carol special film (1992) of the same work (the one with Michael Caine in it).
However, better yet is the 1991 classic A Christmas Coral by novelist Dick Charles. This was his last work he ever had published, for he was abducted by aliens in 1993 and hasn’t been heard from since. Thus, this beautiful book is a testament to his existence prior to abandoning life on Earth.
Just Keep Swimming in A Christmas Coral
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. Oh, except whooping cough syndrome. That’s pretty contagious…”
The story follows the life of Ebenezer Scurvy in 1762, a pirate whom is a bit of a miserable prick. However, when he’s mercilessly attacked by a great white shark the blood loss leads to him viewing the world in a more upbeat way.
As he floats about in the ocean with a limb missing, he recalls his life in a series of hallucinations. The chapters go like this:
- Prologue
- Birth
- Childhood
- Formative years at Yarr University
- SHIVER ME TIMBERS!!!
- Recession
- More recession
- Plague outbreak
- Scurvy outbreak
- Pirating years
- Shark attack and limb loss
- Further pontifications
- Death and absorption by the ocean
- Epilogue
A Christmas Coral is notorious for its tediousness. The work is 1,100 pages and rambles a fair bit. It also makes references to more modern life, which is somewhat anachronistic given the work is supposed to be set in 1762.
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. And if you’re unaware about that reference, I’m on about Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.”
Many literary critics were at pains to point out Macaulay Culkin could not possibly have starred in Home Alone circa 1762 as:
- Macaulay Culkin wasn’t alive
- Cinema didn’t exist
To set the record straight on this matter, Professional Moron reached out via telepathy to Dick Charles for a comment. He declined to comment. As such, his legacy is in ruins and this book is stupid woopid.
Addendum Thesis: Is The Christmas Carol Even Related to Christmas in Any Way?
We’re ending this review on a mini-dissertation, for there’s much scholarly musing over whether A Christmas Carol is, indeed, a work of Xmas-related literature. There are three core postulations:
- Yes, it is
- No, it is not
- Maybe
Compelling arguments, all, but we tend to side on the front of “maybe” as it’s the most apathetic. Yet, on reflection, we feel we may change our stance to “yes” as that’s the most nonsensical, but plausible.
We mean, it’s there in the title: A Christmas Carol.
The work may not go on to have anything to do about Christmas, or corals for that matter, but it’s there in the name and, therefore, that is a convincing argument (if one a tad childlike in its reasoning). Plus, the book references Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone and that’s about as Xmas as it gets, eh?
#AChristmasCarol #AChristmasCoral #Books #CharlesDickens #coral #Humor #Lifestyle #Literature #Pirates #Reading #Satire #satirical #Sea #Silly -
Anemone Porcelain crab - Neopetrolisthes maculatus
#gili #giliislands #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #anemone #marinelife #padi #crab #coral -
Hard and nice corals
#gili #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #weekend #ocean #sealife #marinelife #coral -
"Shell Game"
Teableau for 08/23/26The dainty MidCentury sugar & creamer set is by Vallona Star California Pottery. It's one of my most favorite acquisitions.
#Tea #VintageChina #Teableau #Teapot #BlackTea #Puerh #Handmade #Watercolor #MCM #MidCentury #Seashells #Coral #GlassArt #VallonaStarr #CaliforniaPottery #Arcopal
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Beautiful coral in Lombok
#gili #giliislands #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #ocean #sealife #marinelife #coral -
Got a Google Coral USB Accelerator working in a Gentoo HVM guest under Xen. Key Xen fix: QEMU passthrough by physical USB port (-device usb-host,hostbus=3,hostport=5) survives Coral firmware re-enumeration from 1a6e:089a to 18d1:9302. Also rebuilt libedgetpu for modern Gentoo/GCC 16 with TF Lite 2.16.1 + pinned FlatBuffers 23.5.26. #Gentoo #Xen #Coral #EdgeTPU #Linux
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"Study suggests three-quarters of Indo-Pacific coral reefs could drown as sea levels rise"
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quarters-indo-pacific-coral-reefs.html
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While whole reef communities might struggle, some corals might survive high temperatures by metabolic downregulation following recovering from near-death in a process called rejuvenescence.
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#Lala Triggers Nation's First #Coral Insurance Payment - Honolulu Civil Beat
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/lala-triggers-nations-first-coral-insurance-payment/
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Coral fungus 😃
Nice name 😉#Coral #Fungus #Forest #Hiking #Walking #Fungi #FungiFriends #Photography
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19-Aug-2026
#Florida’s leading coral experts unite in historic effort to restore Florida’s coral reef
Backed by a NOAA-funded initiative, 12 organizations joined forces during the annual #coral spawning event to produce more than 1.5 million embryos and help preserve genetic diversity for the future of Florida’s #CoralReefhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140383
#science #ecology #environment #conservation #climateCatastrophe #corals
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From "heat wave simulators" to ecological bootcamps, scientists and conservationists are trying ways to revive and reinforce the coral reefs off Okinawa Prefecture, decimated by climate-driven bleaching two summers ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/20/climate-change/japan-climate-change-okinawa-coral-protection/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #okinawa #coral #environment #climatechange #tourism
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Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds
By Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondentHottest periods this year in most sea regions would have been ‘virtually impossible’ in a preindustrial climate
#Oceans #Environment #Climatecrisis #Pollution #Fossilfuels #Marinelife #Energy #Coral #Fish #Birds #Wildlife #TheGuardian #AjitNiranjanEuropeenvironmentcorrespondent
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Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/carbon-pollution-massive-expansion-marine-heatwaves-europe #Oceans #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Pollution #FossilFuels #MarineLife #Energy #Coral #Fish #Birds #Wildlife
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A feather star on a seafan
#gili #giliislands #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #weekend #ocean #sealife #marinelife #coral #featherstar #seafan -
Descubren nueva especie de coral cerca de la Isla del Coco
Una nueva especie de coral fue descubierta en aguas profundas cercanas a la Isla del Coco. El hallazgo es de tal importancia que los expertos tuvieron que crear una nueva familia y un nuevo género biológico, debido a las diferencias morfológicas y moleculares de este animal marino. La especie fue encontrada específicamente entre los 360 […]
The post Descubren nueva especie de coral cerca de la Isla del Coco appeared first on CR Hoy.#Ciencia #Coral #IslaDelCoco #OdaliscaBreedy #VisualA4
https://crhoy.com/descubren-nueva-especie-de-coral-cerca-de-la-isla-del-coco/
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Great Barrier Reef
"..a monsoon brought the Great Barrier Reef a reprieve from coral bleaching—an aid in its initial recovery from recent climate-induced effects."
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-barrier-reefs-recovery-from-bleaching-is-aided-by-monsoon/#SolarPunkSunday #GreatBarrierReef #Coral #Oceans #ClimateCrisis
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"Great Barrier Reef’s Recovery From Bleaching is Aided by Monsoon"
#GreatBarrierReef #Coral #Oceans
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-barrier-reefs-recovery-from-bleaching-is-aided-by-monsoon/
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"New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change."
#Ocean #Marine #Biology #Coral #Reefs #ClimateDiary #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels
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¿Y los protectores solares minerales, esos que prometen ser la alternativa natural? Cuidado. La agencia estadounidense de medicamentos #FDA solo reconoce como seguros y eficaces el óxido de zinc y el dióxido de titanio –pero eso se refiere a la seguridad para nuestra piel, no para el #coral. Los propios autores del trabajo en #Science lo dicen sin rodeos: no está nada claro que los filtros solares metálicos sean más seguros para los arrecifes que los orgánicos