Path: Supernews69!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.wli.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cronkite.cisco.com!not-for-mail From: The Amazing Renfield Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Oz, anyone? Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 12:43:12 -0700 Organization: Ars Umbra Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33C29850.4084@cisco.com> References: <5possq$cuk$1@pike.dnaco.net> <5ps4od$mbs$2@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: ren@cisco.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.69.35.253 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) To: oispeggy@acsu.buffalo.edu Xref: Supernews69 alt.magick:106916 oispeggy@acsu.buffalo.edu swore that these were the pearls that were his eyes: > > I'm not up on all the Necronomicon clones, but this is not a surprising > > attribution. You can also glean some wonderful correspondences in the Wizard > > of Oz. Dorothy's companions represent the animal, vegetable, and mineral > > kingdoms, for example. Dorothy, as the witch who doesn't yet realize her > > power, brings them together, purifies them through the ordeals imposed by Oz, > > and transforms both them and herself. I haven't seen any Oz magick, though. > > Who was Toto? Obviously her spirit animal guide. Toto only does three things in the movie: defend Dorothy in a fit of furball rage (her own ineffectual animal instincts? Dorothy's not very liberated as a woman..), reveal the wizard (an extension of her magical senses breaking the deception of the false magician), and prevent Dorothy from taking the balloon ride, but instead forcing her to realize her own powers and send herself happy and safe to the moral of the story: There's no place like lousy, boring, don't-leave-you'll-regret-it-if-you-do, home. > > It isn't as scary as Lovecraft and is a lot more subtle. > > How so? > Negative. Oz is a fairy tale and can be analyzed as such. Lovecraft is existential horror. Both are equally subtle to the ignorant/knowledgable and a lot more children are afraid of the Wicked Witch than Cthulhu. -Renfield