Or, a story all about Christmas and its various accrued traditions, and how weird they can be...
6: Christmas Traditions
“What’s this? What’s this? There’s colour everywhere! What’s this? There’s white things in the air!”
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is all about someone having his first experience of Christmas, and while he likes it he really doesn’t get it. And then in attempting to get it, he tries to appropriate it.
And Santa Claus has to explain what he does, without really explaining why. Really, what is it with kissing under mistletoe? Or Santa’s sleigh being pulled by flying reindeer? Or...
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