One thousand and one Christmases chapter 120 is all about the magic of Christmas, which is a day when people look at everyday things with pity. If you work on a christmas cake, people will pity you. But if you're a normal person, they'll look at your everyday activities with pity because they inspire sympathy. For example, if you go home and stir up a salted rice bran, people's going to feel bad for you because they're thinking of you as a christ mas. The narrator then goes on to explain that Christmas is a time for people to pity everything, and that's why he's doing his Christmas shopping at a fancy restaurant. He's trying to win people over to his side by showing them his small, everyday things. He doesn't want to be seen as a bad person, and he'd like to win the sympathy of people who don't care about his death wishes. But the narrator warns him to be careful, because his wife is a crazy person.