Written by Frank Baum, an original member of the LeagueOfGoodRoads. Opens in Kansas. Much of it was written in the Hotel Del Coronado.

Published in 1900, the Wizard of Oz is often interpreted as a Populist allegory of GoldVsSilver (the TinWoodsman = dehumanized industrial labor; the Scarecrow = farmers; the CowardlyLion = William Jennings Bryan; the Wizard of Oz = PresidentWilliamMcKinley or perhaps the financial wizard MarkHanna; the SilverShoes = the silver standard; and the YellowBrickRoad = the gold standard) and slightly less often as a Theosophical text

BensTarotReading used an Oz Tarot deck.

There's a rumor of a rave -- a circuit party -- called Oz. BenSiegel debunked that rumor, but he was wrong.

The Oneiros features Wizard of Oz characters.

Characters

• Dorothy
• The Scarecrow
• The TinWoodsman
• The CowardlyLion
• The WickedWitchOfTheWest
• The Wizard of Oz

Links

• http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6396/ozcritic.htm
• http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/oz/
• http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm
• an Oz / TheHangedMan connection that I haven't figured out how to work into the plot yet: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s49hang3.html
• full text of the original novel: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/wizoz10.html
• http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm

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