Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdics.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdics!west From: west@sdics.UUCP (Larry West) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Wizard of Oz question Message-ID: <149@sdics.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 06:20:18 EST Article-I.D.: sdics.149 Posted: Sun Mar 9 06:20:18 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Mar-86 01:39:09 EST References: <356@isis.UUCP> <1979@bbncc5.UUCP> <535@oliven.UUCP> Reply-To: west@sdics.UUCP (Larry West) Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science Lines: 36 Summary: Hmmm? In article <535@oliven.UUCP> barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) writes: > TO OZ AND BACK -- Stan Barker > > W.W. Denslow once wrote: "The world is . . . built upon the joke > principle and as usual the joke is on me. It always has been and > I suspect it always will. . . ." . . . > When he died in 1915, broke and obscure, he was buried in > an unmarked grave. Yet, in the years since, Oz has become a part of > American folklore, and the formation of an International Wizard of > Oz Club has revived interest in Denslow's work. Last year, the > seventieth anniversary of his death, his grave was finally marked, > by the Club . . . with a stone featuring the Scarecrow and Tin > Woodman he gave shape to for all time. > If the world *is* built on the joke principle, W.W. Denslow > is having the last laugh. This is triumph? This is crowning glory? Why can't hack [e.g., Time, Newsweek] writers ever tell a story without trying to come up with some bogus "moral" at the end? --- But apart from that, thanks for posting an interesting article. -- Larry West USA+619-452-6771 Institute for Cognitive Science non-business hrs: 452-2256 UC San Diego (mailcode C-015) La Jolla, CA 92093 USA UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4,sdcrdcf,decvax,gatech}!sdcsvax!sdics!west ARPA: or DOMAIN: or