Category: Ozblogging
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 4
Episode IV: Ozpocalypse Now Having been given the mission to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, Colonel Willard — oops, I mean Dorothy — heads off into the wilds of Cambodia, or Winkie Country. There's no road, as the Wicked Witch has cut off her realm from the rest of Oz. Sadly, Dorothy doesn't…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 3
Episode III: The Crawling Chaos of Oz Once past the poppies, our heroes finally reach the Emerald City. Despite the fact that Oz is a peaceful fairyland, the capital is a heavily-fortified walled city. It's not clear what the wall is supposed to keep out, as the Army of Oz consists of one soldier and…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 2
Episode II: Incidents of Travel in Oz Dorothy's journey to the Emerald City is about what you remember from the movie. Yellow brick road, finds Scarecrow, finds Tin Woodman, meets Cowardly Lion. Sure, the Wizard can help you, off we go. The Cowardly Lion is a really big lion, presumably born in the usual way…
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OzBlogging: The Wizard of Oz, part 1
Ozblogging: this is the first in an irregular series of posts about L. Frank Baum's Oz books. I think Baum is unjustly neglected as a fantasy writer — though I also recognize his considerable shortcomings. These little essays are not heavy literary criticism. I'm not going digging for complicated and unlikely interpretations of the books…
The Cambias Digression 