Submitted by VengefulMight t3_11bh4kp in books
I find some of the stuff around The Wizard of Oz fascinating. That the Wizard was supposed to symbolise the financial authorities and the treasury with all of his authority being only surface. One scholar even suggested that the silver slippers represented the silver standard.
It is the juxtaposition between the light airy nature of Baum’s work and darker tones.
The same way the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down” was alleged by the Victorians to be about the bones used as mortar when the bridge was constructed.
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a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.