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       # 2019-02-20 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
       
       This book seems almost poetic at times.  I particularly enjoyed
       chapter 11.  The introduction states "the time has come for a series
       of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and
       fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and
       blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome
       moral to each tale."  The book however surprised me with a fair
       amount of violence.  For example, in chapter 12, the tin woodsman
       kills 40 wolves and leaves their corpses in a pile for Dorothy to
       find when she wakes in the morning.
       
       My second grade teacher read a section of this book to the class over
       multiple days.  I remember enjoying it, but i didn't recall the
       details.  I do remember that around the age of 6 or 7 i was permitted
       to stay up late to watch the move, and i felt frightened by the
       Wicked Witch of the West.
       
 (HTM) Obligatory HHC music video:
       
       # Chapter 4
       
       "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably
       all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no
       people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."
       
       # Chapter 6
       
       The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took
       great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. "You people with
       hearts," he said, "have something to guide you, and need never do
       wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
       
       # Chapter 10
       
       "I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little
       things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as
       mice have saved my life..."
       
       # Chapter 12
       
       "We dare not harm this little girl," he said to them, "for she is
       protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of
       Evil. All we can do is to carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch
       and leave her there."
       
       So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, "I can still
       make her my slave, for she does not know how to use her power."
       
       # Chapter 16
       
       So the Wizard unfastened his head and emptied out the straw. Then he
       entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed
       with a great many pins and needles. Having shaken them together
       thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow's head with the
       mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in
       place. When he had fastened the Scarecrow's head on his body again he
       said to him, "Hereafter you will be a great man, for I have given you
       a lot of bran-new brains."  [Whole-groan pun there!]
       
       "How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make
       me do things that everybody knows can't be done? It was easy to make
       the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they
       imagined I could do anything..."
       
       author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
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