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From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com
Moriarty wrote:
> On Aug 26, 4:59 am, "Brian M. Scott" wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:43:38 -0700 (PDT), Moriarty
>> wrote in
>>
>> in
>> rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.books.childrens,alt.books.cs-lew
s,alt.books.inklings,rec.arts.books.tolkien:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I read the article and nearly choked on this line:
>>> 'Baum promised one interviewer, "You'll never find
>>> anything in my fairy tales which frightens a child." '
>>> Baum created a world where no-one could die. That didn't
>>> stop them being smashed to bits, pulverised, cut to
>>> pieces, burned, etc and yet still remain alive. As a
>>> kid, I thought _The Scarecrow of Oz_ had some pretty
>>> horrific fates for admittedly off-screen characters.
>>> King Kynd was IIRC thrown into a lake, covered with
>>> stones and remains there still, alive, unable to die or
>>> get out.
>> No, King Kynd was thrown into the Great Gulf, which is said
>> to have no bottom. The culprit was his Prime Minister,
>> Phearce, who then became King. *His* Prime Minister, Krewl,
>> subsequently tripped him into a deep pond, covered with him
>> heavy stones, and became King.
>
> Yeah, you're right. I had the fates of Krewl's two predecessors mixed
> up. Kynd's fate was also pretty horrific IMHO.
Yeah, I confused them, but it doesn't matter much; Kynd's eternal
plunge through emptiness seems horrific too.
> The one that I thought
>> genuinely scary is by Jack Snow, _The Magical Mimics in Oz_.
>
> I've never read any non-Baum Oz stuff and have no plans to do so
> unless Wasp's Polychrome is published.
Thanks!
I actually read one of the non-Baum Oz books that did seem very "Ozzy"
to me indeed, even though it had some aspects which didn't fit with
(parts of) the Baum canon; oddly it was the final book in the "Famous
Forty", Merry-Go-Round in Oz.
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