Woohooo YAY! absolutely love this Vicky. You go Girl!

Mxx

p.s  it's a

"we all have wings, but some of us don't know why"

Michael Hutchence (INXS)

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An interesting sidenote: the plot of The Wizard of Oz has often been used, rightly or wrongly, as a Parable on Populism in the Gilded Age, to explain the political situation at the time of its writing, including the 1896 Presidential election, and the turn-of-the-century Populist movement. Here are a few of the allegorical connections, most of which were originally recognized by Henry M. Littlefield, and published in the American Quarterly in 1967:

the Scarecrow - the wise, but naive western farmers
the Tin Woodman - the dehumanized, Eastern factory workers
the Wicked Witch of the East - the Eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins)
the Good Witch of the North - New England, a stronghold of Populists
the Good Witch of the South - the South, another Populist area
the Wizard - President Grover Cleveland, or Republican Presidential candidate William McKinley
the Cowardly Lion - Democratic-Populist Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan
Dorothy - a young Mary Lease; or the good-natured American people
Dorothy's silver shoes - represents the 'silver standard' (acc. to the Populists, "the free and unlimited coinage of silver")
Toto - the 'teetotaling' Prohibitionists (or Temperance Party), an important part of the 'silverite' coalition
the Yellow Brick road - the 'gold standard' - paved with gold, but leads nowhere
the land of Oz - oz. is the standard abbreviation for ounce, in accordance with the other symbolism
Emerald City - Washington, D.C., with a greenish color associated with greenbacks
the Poppy field - the threat of anti-imperialism

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