Jean Shepherd - "Wizard of Oz"
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- World money; symbolic languages; Esperanto; Saturday story hour at the library; Oz trivia; fantasy literature. This is a WBJC syndicated replay from April 15, 1975. Special thanks to Jim Clavin of FlickLives.com for preserving this program. [Audio is public domain. Photo © by Fred W. McDarrah, used with permission.]
Just FYI... There are 40 "official" books in the Wizard of Oz series (the first 14 by L. Frank Baum). "The Wizard of Oz" (the book and film that we all know and love) is only the first story in the series. Dorothy was in all of them except the second volume ("The Marvelous Land of Oz").
Wow! Shep is well-read. I was curious about there being prequels and sequels to the Wizard of Oz story that I had read as a kid and of the movie, and apparently, there is/ was. When Shep started talking about the Tin Man and the WOO, and the story being a Quest, I flashed back to the similarly metallic C3PO from the Star Wars movie for similarities in characters. And the 'Bar Scene" in Star Wars could be likened to Munchkin Land. And Obi-Wan Kenobe the Wizard. And of course the first Star Wars movie had prequels and sequels 🤔 Edit: WOO: Lion; SW - Wookie. WOO- Dorothy, SW - Princess Leia (with tornado hair twisters on both sides of her head)
Wholesome episode. Spoilers:
1) Esperanto - although his qualification of endemic is kind of cute, technically all languages are invented. This was also the easiest to guess among all the other questions.
2) I just read Lost Horizon last week and Shangri-La is traditionally misunderstood when referenced, this is no exception. It is certainly not a country, although geographically one could describe it as a remote region. Little known fact - Shangri-La was the original name for what is now known as Camp David.
3) His connection with great literature (novels, specifically) and quest lines is very insightful. I recently read The Golden Ass by Apuleius and it is the oldest classical example from Western literature.
4) Never in my life have I heard of Graustark or Graustarkian. Google ngram has zero results for either term, which is pretty amazing. Esoteric, indeed. Thanks Shep!
App- I remember in the 60s my mother had a book of Esperanto in her bookcase, and I remember her trying to "show-off" by saying a few words, and I remember thinking even as a young child what a waste it would be to "invent" a new language that *everybody* would have to learn, rather than pick a language that most people already know, like English, and teach English to non-Engish speakers😛 I wonder who would have come up with such an idea, and might conclude that the inventory had to be anti-Western culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graustark
@@greenteablend certainly, I read the Graustark wiki article first thing - I was just more amazed that given Shep's apocryphal citations of once-culture-wide cache, the term seemed to have completely fallen off a cliff -
Thanks for all your work uploading these episodes and restoring them where necessary!
@@cmans79tr7 well, conclusions aren't my specialty, but I would invite you to read the wiki on Esperanto, it's pretty interesting -
@@appidydafoo I had never heard of Graustark and had to look it up. When he said the fictional country started with a 'G', I guessed "Grand Fenwick" of "The Mouse That Roared" series.
Also spoiler alert:......................"World Money" Euro?😛
jean was/is the BEST! should have been more Famous than he was.especially considering the Toilet overflow thats VERY STERN-like!
30:11 - What!??? Tik-Tock of OZ? No, I have never heard of that. So does "Today's" internet Tik-Tok (I do not partake, BTW) attempt any connection to "Tick-tock of OZ?"😮
I guess you never watched "Return To OZ" from the late 80s. It is worth it- totally bonkers and TikTok is one of the main characters
@@ikept_the_jethryk2421 - Not to my recollection. I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks for the tip.👌