'No matter how
dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live
there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place
like home.'
The Scarecrow sighed.
'Of course I
cannot understand it,' he said. 'If your heads were stuffed with straw, like
mine, you would probably live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would
have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.'"
The first half of Baum's book is surprisingly close to what you would
expect after watching the 1939 Hollywood classic, grey Kansas included. The
mostly unknown second half however is much more reminiscent of Carroll's
Alice's Adventures. A great wall made of China is one of the clearer Carroll
style nonsensical wordplays. This nonsensical allusion also draws
the attention to another Odyssey which is even closer to The Wonderful Wizard - the Chinese "Journey to the West".
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