From: "Carrie Pruett" <
pruettc@hotmail.com>
Anthony
>I dunno ... I'm still disappointed that Dorothy
Gale
>didn't make it.
Jim:
>When she either:
>a) joins the police force
>b) opens a detective agency
>c) enters the CIA
>or
>d) robs a bank
hey now, storming the witch's castle was quite a caper. and
knocking out those guards? of course Dorothy's not hardboiled
herself, as her Kansas
farmgirl roots indicate; Dorothy is the femme fatale. But her
three friends
- - the yellowbrick road clearly represents the mean street
through the corrupt urban jungle; the lion is a lion but he
is not himself mean; the
tinman is all metal and yet untarnished, the scarecrow is
made of straw the corruptible and transient stuff of mortal
life yet when he encounters fire he is unafraid -
and don't get me started on Toto -
carrie
Just to show that no good idea hasn't already been explored,
there's a very tough novel based on the Oz legend (Baum's,
not HBO's) -- Robert McCammon's "Gone South," in which an
Agent Orange-poisoned Vietnam vet, blamed for a murder not
entirely his fault, runs from the cops into a Louisiana
swamp. There he picks up an assortment of weird and damaged
fellow travelers all seeking a mystical swamp witch who can
possibly
"cure" them all. It's a terrific book from a writer who seems
to have done the unthinkable -- stopped publishing while
still hitting the bestseller lists.
Dick Lochte
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