From Time to Time -- Which do you Prefer?

Message:

I took the first two paragraphs of A Christmas Carol and let COPILOT make them better. Can you guess which is which and more so, which you find more readable or appealing? Kinda a Who wears it Better for the written word.

===Option One===
At the outset, Marley was unquestionably dead. There was absolutely no doubt about it. The burial record was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge also signed it. And Scrooge's reputation was solid on 'Change for anything he decided to endorse. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Now, I don't claim to know from personal experience why a door-nail is considered particularly dead. I might have thought a coffin-nail was the most definitively dead piece of ironmongery around. But the wisdom of our ancestors lies in the expression; and I shall not disturb it with my unholy hands, or else the country is lost. So, you will allow me to state again, with emphasis, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

===Option Two===

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.




Yours,