Brain Furniture

[twirlingdervish]

In Oz, land of golems, character's histories often include accounts of the way they received their brains (the Scarecrow, Bungle the Glass Cat). We witness the creation of one such: Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz, is one of many oz golems born into slavery. The (physically) crooked magician Dr. Pipt has spent six years brewing a powder of life

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[6_bleen_7]

Howdy! I stumbled upon your journal via zoe_trope's. When I was a kid I pretty much read the words right off my sister's complete set of Baum Oz books. Your commentary has awoken many a long-dormant memory of just how bizarre some of Baum's plots and characters were. Baum also relates, in The Land of Oz, the animation of Jack Pumpkinhead, the leering monster with the perishable skull, and the lethal-splinter-delivering Sawhorse by none other than Ozma herself, when she was imprisoned in the form of the boy Pip. (Please forgive my poor recollection of the details; I'm thinking back 30 years. I'm surprised I can remember any of this stuff, but I did etch the stores pretty deep into my young and impressionable cerebral cortex

[twirlingdervish]

I mean, yeah! Ozma's kind of this awful fascist. Does being a cute girl really let you get away with outlawing magic and closing her kingdom's borders?

[kahran042]

Correction. This awful IMMORTAL fascist. :)

[twirlingdervish]

I read all Baum's books too, rabidly, many times, but! I edited. I clearly remember actively editing as I went along. He straight-out says hottentots are an inferior, lower form of man. Hottentots are actually awesome, so.