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From: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Wizard of Oz question
Message-ID: <1979@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 10:37:01 EST
Article-I.D.: bbncc5.1979
Posted: Fri Feb 28 10:37:01 1986
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Reply-To: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: Don't believe anything you see in the movies

In article <356@isis.UUCP> tkoppel@isis.UUCP (Ted Koppel - News Guest) writes:
>My question:  What is the time duration between when Dorothy is knocked on the
>head during the tornado and when she comes to (after the 'return' from the land
>of Oz)?  The time frame in Oz is several days ( I think), but does anyone have
>any idea (or did Baum even say) how long she was unconscious? 

AARGH!!  This is what comes of watching television, I guess.  In the REAL
"Wizard of Oz" (i.e. the book), Dorothy was NOT knocked on the head during the
tornado, she was NOT unconscious and dreaming, and she did NOT 'return' (quotes
his) from Oz by "coming to" (quotes mine).  She got carried by the tornado to
Oz, had adventures lasting many days, including several not shown in the movie,
and eventually returned to Kansas by flying over the Deadly Desert using her
magical silver shoes (note: NOT ruby slippers), arriving home much to the
surprise of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, who thought that she had been
lost/carried away/killed by the tornado, and never expected to see her again.
The real Dorothy Gale was also much younger during her first trip to Oz than
Judy Garland was in the movie, she was about the same height as the Munchkins
(who were short, but not midgets, and not notably shorter than the inhabitants
of the rest of Oz), and she was greeted in Munchkin land by the good witch of
the North, who was NOT Glinda (Glinda was the good witch of the South). 

    Summary:  read the book.  It will be a revelation to you.
-- 
Morris M. Keesan
keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA
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