Dear Dooyoo Santa (An open letter to....)

Member Name: marandina

Product:	An open letter to....
Date:	24/12/06 (191 review reads)
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Advantages: He's real....

Disadvantages: ...oh no he isn't (oh yes he is)

The most reprinted newspaper editorial of all time is the reply sent by Francis Pharcellus Church to 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon who wrote to the New York Sun in September 1897. She wanted to know whether there was a real Santa Claus. I guess if I was going to do something similar today, maybe I’d write to Dooyoo and ask the same question.

Dear Dooyoo Santa,

I am 41 years old.

Some of my Dooyoo friends say there is no Dooyoo Santa Claus.

Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.”

Please tell me the truth; is there a Dooyoo Santa Clause?

Marandina

115 West Ninety-Fifth St.
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p.s. My Christmas Wish List

-Re-instatement of a split read count for member/non-member reads on my profile

-A decent archive that can be searched and products actually found

-Review traffic as busy as it was in the glory days of a few years ago

-The comments link brought back so that opinions don’t have to be read to catch the comments…

....and pay per non-member reads. Well, if you don’t ask you don’t get...
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Reply

Marandina, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Marandina, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little.

In this great Dooyoo universe of ours, the consumer reviewer is a mere insect, an ant, in his or her intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him or her, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Marandina, there is a Dooyoo Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and consumer products exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy as well as information about phones and movies.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Dooyoo Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Marandinas. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Dooyoo Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in Ciao fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch the Dooyoo Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle (as reviewed in October on Dooyoo) and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world (see debate in discussion about wearing the veil – right or wrong?) which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.

Is it all real? Ah, Marandina, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, 10 times 10 thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood and help make purchasing decisions from afar.
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Merry Christmas everyone.

Mara

Summary: A letter to Santa