The Charles Dickens classic, "A Tale of Two Cities," asserts the belief in the possibility of resurrection and transformation, both on a personal level and on a societal level.
Once again, Guam's most literate journalist - and my muse - takes flight in her weekly column where readers are teased by her dickensian reference to the corrosion of corruption that eats away at the foundations of island life in the Marianas.
While Dickens ultimately expressed in his tale the belief that the violence and atrocities committed by the aristocracy and by the outraged peasants, would eventually give way to a new and better society, in Mar-Vic's admonitory, local plebeians and patricians are forced to dispatch with such notions of redemption. On Guam we are content to munch on popcorn and watch the demise of paradise from the peanut gallery.
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