Comments on: Next Door to Dorothy https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: leslee https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2838 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:47:38 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2838 Yes, very nice indeed.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2837 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:44:18 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2837 Thanks, patry!

]]> By: patry https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2836 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:21:49 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2836 Marvelous poem, Dave. A favorite.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2835 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:09:16 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2835 Yeah, that green skin was pretty over-the-top. Might be a sign of advanced putrefaction. One of the creepy (to me) things about Oz, as revealed in the later books, is that no living organism can ever grow old and die – except the bad witches (Glenda the Good Witch stays young and beautiful, and can come into contact with water without any adverse effects). I think L. Frank Baum must have been an extraordinarily prudish fellow.

]]> By: rr https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2834 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:55:34 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2834 This is. Wow. I thought of Dorothy Wordsworth at first, of course. One of my children found the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz so frightening that he refused even to allow us to keep the video in the house and we had to show him how we took it away and put it in a bin on the street. There’s probably a lesson in there somewhere :-)

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2833 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:59:42 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2833 Thanks for the comments.

Zhoen – Did you ever read any of the other Oz books? They were among the first substantial books I read on my own, as an 8-year-old (although my home life was perfectly happy). Dorothy does pretty much move back to Oz for good. I think she brings her parents with her.

Bobby – I don’t know about disasters, but it’s a fact that the snow was deeper and the winters were colder when I was a kid. And I miss that.

butuki – That’s funny. We didn’t have TV at all, but I saw the Wizard of Oz several times on the color TV set at my Nanna and Pop-pop’s house (maternal grandparents). I think the moral that “there’s no place like home” really resonated with them, conservative nationalists as they were.

bev – As wild as my dreamlife can be, I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed about tornadoes, bizarre ones or otherwise. I wonder what that means?

]]> By: bev https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2832 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:15:54 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2832 I read this poem through about 3 times on my last visit, and a couple of times on this one. It’s super, Dave.
Btw, re: butuki’s comment. I never actually saw the Wizard of Oz in colour until many years after first seeing it in b&w. Similar reaction.
Another btw: For many years, I’ve had recurring dreams of tornadoes (quite bizarre ones). A couple of years ago, I found out that a writer friend has been having them for years too.

]]> By: butuki https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2831 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2831 When I was a boy we didn’t have color TV. Every year we watched the Wizard of Oz in black and white and for me the whole movie relied more on my imagination that perhaps the movie had originally intended. I didn’t know the shoes were red or that the Wicked Witch’s skin was green. The Horse of a Different Color just seemed different shades of grey.

Then in 1987, while sitting on the lawn in front of the public theatre on the Esplanade in Boston, I had the opportunity to see the Wizard of Oz again. I sat there among about 1000 other people, happily gazing at the black and white opening scenes of the movie. Then suddenly, when the house landed in Oz the whole screen blushed into color! I was astounded! Amidst those 1000 people you could hear a tiny voice exclaim, “My God! It’s all in color! I never knew!”

]]> By: Rachel https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2830 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:14:04 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2830 Beautiful, Dave.

]]> By: Bobby https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2829 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:29:48 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/12/08/next-door-to-dorothy/#comment-2829 Even the disasters were better when we were kids. Now we just have these half ass disasters – or half ass fear anyway.

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