I know what you mean. I get the feeling of an abyss waiting to draw me in and from which I may not return… and that’s scary as hell.
Getting back to Oz, I forgot to mention the Frank Baum and bimetallism thing. Yellow Brick Road as gold and silver slippers. The guy was very interested in money and politics. Every few years I take a deep dive, then I forget about it!
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Exactly
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I found this on Wikipedia:
Dorothy, naïve, young and simple—represents the American people. She is Everyman, led astray and seeking the way back home.[11] Moreover, following the road of gold leads eventually only to the Emerald City, which Taylor sees as symbolic of a fraudulent world built on greenback paper money, a fiat currency that cannot be redeemed in exchange for precious metals.
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I wanted to watch (or read?) Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz for a long time and at this point, I might actually do it. Soon.
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The Wizard Of Oz was a big part of your life if you grew up in the U.S. in the 1970s because of the movie. I want to read the book at some point. I watched a Lewis Carroll documentary on YouTube. Interesting. I guess he was a strange guy.
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I want to read the book at some point.
I can really recommend reading books based on movies or series after you watched them. After I read the book With the Old Breed on which the HBO mini series The Pacific is based on, I realized I need to read a lot more books which became movies or series.
It was just so interesting to see all the details in which the series and book diverges. Might be obvious to some, but the series was very well made and everything was authentic. But in real life, some things that some characters did in the series were actually done by someone else. I guess that was done because you can't have so many different actors just for single scenes. Also, some relationships were overblown in the series (because they actually resemble multiple relationships IRL) and some weren't even mentioned even though they were very important to Eugene IRL, the protagonist.
Also, there was a scene in the series where Eugene meets an old friend from home who joined the Marines after him and they have a good and fun time. But in the book, they never met because Eugene didn't want to meet because the letter that friend wrote to Eugene sounded like he knows nothing about war. Which he didn't, just like Eugene didn't at first. Eugene didn't even reply.
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I have never seen the series nor read the book. I'll check out the series first. I had a similar experience after seeing the new Scorsese movie with my wife. She then read the book and has been pointing out all the differences and inaccuracies to me.
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I'll check out the series first.
No pressure but definitely interested in more opinions on the series from other people :)
There is also a HBO mini series about the western front, Band of Brothers, if you're more interested in that part of the war. Also mostly based on books written by veterans iirc
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I guess Lewis Carroll came up with these stories to entertain Alice and her sisters, but he was an educated professor, so he was aware of the literary traditions.
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Yes. I never read them. I did watch a Lewis Carroll documentary. He was a strange guy. He got very close to the young Alice and her sisters. Some intimations of inappropriateness, but this could be layering a modern sensibility on what was an innocent relationship back then.
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