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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.

	# 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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	title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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