tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post355437907500992093..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Glinda as a "respectable sorceress”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-70660122415477179792012-12-06T10:51:48.884-05:002012-12-06T10:51:48.884-05:00Having searchable texts of the Oz books has defini...Having searchable texts of the Oz books has definitely changed how I study them. I remembered the passage about Mombi pretending to be just a wizardess, for instance, but I wouldn't have recalled that the word sorceress appeared in the same sentence. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-15882947785059713942012-12-06T00:37:22.480-05:002012-12-06T00:37:22.480-05:00You were able to search for the words "witche...You were able to search for the words "witches" and "sorceresses" in all the Oz books with our handy computer tools. Ah, the definitive way to quantify Baum's inconsistencies instead of just taking our puzzled brows as testimony. "Didn't he say in that last book that ... uh ..."Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-81557073831708381972012-12-05T17:36:37.351-05:002012-12-05T17:36:37.351-05:00Yes, Gregory Maguire really knows his Baum. He’s n...Yes, Gregory Maguire really knows his Baum. He’s not afraid to alter details radically, turning them into "Easter eggs" for Oz fans to spot.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-23787131647623766492012-12-05T16:06:56.866-05:002012-12-05T16:06:56.866-05:00Interesting. I read Wicked for the first time rec...Interesting. I read Wicked for the first time recently and didn't realize Maguire had derived his "kumbric witch" from Baum's "krumbic witch."rocketdavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574717380856957685noreply@blogger.com