Thus it was written in the epistle of Gavin Scott,
> Stan after Wirt:
> > > Yesterday as you may have heard was the 100th anniversary of
> > > the publication of the "Wizard of Oz" by Frank L. Baum. In
> > > case it escaped you, the book is widely regarded as a parable
> > > about the populism that spread through the
> >
> > For years, people specializing in Oz research (including Martin
> > Gardner and relatives of L. Frank Baum) have dismissed that
> > interpretation.
>
> Sometimes a flying monkey is just a flying monkey.
>
<g>

In in the For What It's Worth Department, Paul Harvey, in one of his "rest of
the story" books tells about the original telling of the story during which
Baum suddenly had a need for a name for the country and, looking quickly
around happened upon the label on the file drawer below the one labelled A-M.

Ted
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... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio.
Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity
as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable
first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend
demonstration, and without which he can do nothing.
                                            -- Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
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