Subj : Re: World of Pogo
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : John Wilson
Date : Mon Jul 16 2001 07:00 pm

-=> LEE LOFASO wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-


 LL> One of the best essays I've read was by mathematician Martin
 LL> Gardner...

 Ah, I miss his columns in SA...


 ..., who wrote a dissertation about the Wizard of Oz.  He
 LL> also annotated a book by Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in
 LL> Wonderland".  But it was his knowledge of the Land of Oz which
 LL> enabled him to write an original novel on Oz, "Visitors From Oz",
 LL> based on L. Frank Baum's novels.

 Holy Cow! I would love to read that! I remember a magical summer when
 The library just down the hill from where we were staying, had ALL
 the OZ books...I think `entrancing' is the proper word...

 Gonna look for that book in Chapters/Amazon.


 LL> "Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the
 LL> world is full of wonders."
 LL> - the white pearl in L. Frank Baum's 'Rinkitink in Oz'

 Ah....a 60 year old memory...

 And...

 H. M. Wogglebug, T.E.

 (Highly magnified and Thoroughly educated.) :-) ...


 >LL> * SLMR 2.1a * Our family always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar
 >LL>things!

 JW>... A dog is prose; a cat is a poem.

 LL> "Mouse dear!  Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats
 LL> or dogs either, if you don't like them!" - Alice

 The Zen of Childrens Classics...

 Cheers!



.... You must hear a bird's song without rendering it into verbs and nouns.RWE
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