in my face..lol

welllllllll it's been absolute years since i actually saw the wizard of oz..the original one...but there it was when i turned on the idiot box
it was the ending and so i sat and watched the last few minutes with new eyes
i do not remember the good witch with the info coming in - in an ORB...
of course they probably called it a bubble...but it makes me want to find a copy of the book now and see how it was worded

and the dialog was another one of those..yeah i knew this..but somehow it had a third meaning tonight
age?..timing?.. knowledge acquired?..

the good witch saying..you have always had the power to go home
but others telling you that wasn't enough..YOU had to see it for yourself

so big wow to the orb thing...and hearing those words take on yet another meaning after thinking i knew the story..

so of course i had to go look up who wrote the thing...and would you believe it was written in 1900?????


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,[nb 1] it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum's writing thirteen more Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956.

Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife", Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, George M. Hill Company, the publisher, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900.[citation needed]
Historians, economists and literary scholars have examined and developed possible political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, the majority of the reading public simply takes the story at face value.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz


kinda the harry potter of then...so i'm off to search out more
talk about in your face...

i'm off to find the wizard....

sorry..forgot to add the last part..very interesting about his imaginary friends

BackgroundBorn on May 15, 1856, in a frame house in Chittenango, New York, Lyman Frank Baum was the seventh child of Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, an affluent oil baron.[2] Raised in Rose Lawn, the Baum country property on the outskirts of Syracuse, Baum had a sheltered upbringing. As a child, he was extremely bashful and was diagnosed with a deficient heart.[3][4] Baum spent considerable time playing with his imaginary friends and reading books.[4] When he was 15 years old, he and Harry, a younger brother produced The Rose Lawn Home Journal.[5] When he was 18 years old, Baum spent much time around local theaters and hoped to pursue acting. Though his father initially opposed his dream, he later capitulated. Baum traveled through different states and worked at various jobs to support his acting career.[6][nb 2]

In 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, daughter of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. His mother-in-law believed that Baum was idealistic and wrote in a letter that he was "a perfect baby". However, she urged him to put to paper the many tales he had related to his sons for many years. Maud Gage, a practical woman, served as a foil to Baum. She was consistent and wary of their finances, complementing her husband, an imaginative dreamer.[4]

[edit] PublicationPublished by George M. Hill Company, the novel's first edition had a printing of 10,000 copies and was sold in advance of the publication date of September 1, 1900. By October 1900, the first edition had already sold out and the second edition of 15,000 copies was nearly depleted.[7]

In a letter to his brother Harry, Baum wrote that the book's publisher, George M. Hill, predicted a sale of about 250,000 copies. In spite of this favorable conjecture, Hill did not initially predict the book would be phenomenally successful. He agreed to publish the book only when the manager of the Grand Opera House, Fred R. Hamlin, committed to making The Wizard of Oz into a play to publicize the novel.[nb 3] After Hill's publishing company became bankrupt in 1901, Baum and Denslow agreed to have the Indiannapolis-based Bobbs-Merrill Company resume publishing the novel.Baum's son Harry Neal told the Chicago Tribune in 1944 that he told his children "whimsical stories before they became material for his books". Harry called his father the "swellest man I knew", a man who was able to give a decent reason as to why black birds cooked in a pie could afterwards get out and sing.[9]

By 1938, over one million copies of the book had been printed.[10] Less than two decades later, in 1956, the sales of his novel grew to 3 million copies in print.[8]

and there's more

Sequels
Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz without any thought of a sequel. After reading the novel, thousands of children wrote letters to him, requesting that he craft another story about Oz. In 1904, he wrote and published the first sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, explaining that he grudgingly wrote the sequel to address the popular demand.[52] Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909. In his 1911 The Emerald City of Oz, he wrote that he could not continue writing sequels because Ozland had lost contact with the rest of the world. The children refused to accept this story, so Baum, in 1913 and every year thereafter until his death in May 1919, wrote an Oz book. The Chicago Tribune's Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897), his first book. He wrote, "To please a child is a sweet and a lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward."[8]

The exceptional success of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz resulted in the creation of many sequels. Baum wrote thirteen sequels to the novel. After he died in 1919, Baum's publishers delegated the creation of more sequels to Ruth Plumly Thompson who wrote 21.[19] An original Oz book was published every Christmas between 1913 and 1942.[6] By 1956, five million copies of the Oz books had been published in the English language, while hundreds of thousands had been published in eight foreign languages.[8]


soo funny..that we can get so many different meanings out of it...and after reading about all the sequels..i can't helpbut thing of shreck and what someone would get from that in 100 years or so..

Check out this article by the vigilant citizen, same guy who covered the illuminati connection to Lady Gaga.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-occult-roots-of-the-wizard-of-oz/

its a great movie and you may already know this if . you turn the sound down after the Lion on the MGM frame roars for the third time at the start and then turn up the stereo and play Pink Floyd`s dark side of the moon CD you will be shocked at how it follows the movie script

Gee, I know I know nothing.