tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post8859659515163746547..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Irresistible: L. Frank Baum and chickens!Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-8835915015545836842014-01-24T11:59:07.404-05:002014-01-24T11:59:07.404-05:00Late is fine!
I am pondering whether Gili could b...Late is fine!<br /><br />I am pondering whether Gili could be short for Gillina, and whether chickens can use keyboards...<br /><br />I wonder if he was right. My mother was a librarian--a state librarian and an academic librarian, and she introduced me to Edward Eager and E. Nesbit and Tolkien and George MacDonald... Of course, she's just one and perhaps not typical of public library Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-34211368194807188222014-01-23T07:39:52.213-05:002014-01-23T07:39:52.213-05:00I am three years late responding, but Ray Bradbury...I am three years late responding, but Ray Bradbury wrote an interesting article about why librarians dislike(d) the Oz books, which has been reprinted in the Schocken heritage edition of "The Wizard of Oz". In a nutshell, he thought that in the 50s anything overly imaginative was suspect. He also thought it had to do with the format of the books, and the fact that they were so popular, Gilihttps://gilibarhillel.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74927392221724828862011-08-14T17:12:40.102-04:002011-08-14T17:12:40.102-04:00Nah, I don't think it is worth the effort. I j...Nah, I don't think it is worth the effort. I just have to watch what Toshba does! She's sneaky. But some day I will graduate to a better-behaved machine... <br /><br />(Hear that, Toshba? Behave!)marlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74941964618485404862011-08-14T17:01:54.915-04:002011-08-14T17:01:54.915-04:00Marley,
Is it possible to fix the keyboard, or wou...Marley,<br />Is it possible to fix the keyboard, or wouldn't it be worth it?Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-27048064462299944642011-08-14T16:26:53.476-04:002011-08-14T16:26:53.476-04:00Elsa Louise,
That was all very interesting... I s...Elsa Louise,<br /><br />That was all very interesting... I shall have to ask my mother whether there was some reaction against Baum in Library World. (Or perhaps he had simply not yet made it into the library school textbooks at that time.)<br /><br />Clearly I ought to be acquainted better with Billina! How can one pretend to have a special interest in chickens and not have read about her Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-80142721250837860352011-08-14T14:00:33.083-04:002011-08-14T14:00:33.083-04:00No worries in re the name spelling, as it is a var...No worries in re the name spelling, as it is a variant. My Toshiba laptop suffered an injury of its own a couple of days ago so am acquainted with keyboard misbehavior.<br /><br />Oz has moved in and out of fashion for the past century. In its earliest publishing incarnation, after the series grew popular, I would dare say people anticipated each new volume with the same type of breathless Elsa Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399605625701167269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-86904688992030906752011-08-14T12:29:39.571-04:002011-08-14T12:29:39.571-04:00I spelled Elsa Louise's name wrong! Forgive me...I spelled Elsa Louise's name wrong! Forgive me, Elsa Louise, it is not me but bad cheap Toshba, who often refuses to yield up her letters (even the "i" in her own name--so I have supposed she is telling me that her name is Toshba.Mea culpa, Elsa Louise--noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-12160679049760849612011-08-14T12:27:41.282-04:002011-08-14T12:27:41.282-04:00zephyr,
As I am in the heart of the village, I am...zephyr,<br /><br />As I am in the heart of the village, I am not allowed to have chickens. That would have been a pleasant thing about living in the country near Cooperstown, but I was afraid of going weird with too few people to talk to while writing books!<br /><br />No, I do not know her, though I may know her books if she's old enough (that is, I have read zillions to my children and Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-38275064457750657242011-08-14T12:24:45.551-04:002011-08-14T12:24:45.551-04:00Robbi,
I do not believe I read even the first one...Robbi,<br /><br />I do not believe I read even the first one as a child--and I did not read the Narnia books either. In fact, I have no memory of them at all until I became a young adult, even though I read the Lewis "space" or "Ransom" trilogy.<br /><br />Sad when one misses childhood books until later because then, unless they are very great indeed, one is a bit to old to Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-65440354128469952572011-08-14T11:05:23.164-04:002011-08-14T11:05:23.164-04:00i do love chickens. One day, when things calm down...i do love chickens. One day, when things calm down around this place, i shall have a few.<br /><br />Sorry, i'm rather illiterate--have not read Baum nor many others i "should" have.<br /><br />i'm sure you've met Lauren Scheur, via Facebook if not elsewhere?? She is children's book author and illustrator and creator of one of my favorite blogs: "scratch and peck&zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-55087750716256761152011-08-14T09:57:59.843-04:002011-08-14T09:57:59.843-04:00Never read the Oz books, sad to say. They are prob...Never read the Oz books, sad to say. They are probably the only major children's books available when I was a child that I did NOT read. They must not have had them at the branch library across the street, and then I never got around to it when I was older.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90858008830742848202011-08-14T08:35:15.976-04:002011-08-14T08:35:15.976-04:00Susanna, I always forget that you have a Randy Cro...Susanna, I always forget that you have a Randy Cross and Howard Bahr habit. <br /><br />Don't make the time go too fast because there is a lot left to do before the Orph train gets to the depot.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-6326086423355091372011-08-14T08:33:09.742-04:002011-08-14T08:33:09.742-04:00Elsa Luise blows my Baum-knowledge out of the wate...Elsa Luise blows my Baum-knowledge out of the water! Excellent. I think she was also supposed to be feisty and energetic (helpful if you are brave.)<br /><br />Evidently Hamburgs can be a bit skittish around people, so that's not Ozian, I don't believe.<br /><br />I am wondering why my mother the librarian did not fetch me home more Oz. Must have been that they weren't considered Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69393582934229328372011-08-14T08:29:47.223-04:002011-08-14T08:29:47.223-04:00Dave Foster, you naughty man--
They say the eggs...Dave Foster, you naughty man-- <br /><br />They say the eggs are succulent and delicious, too, Dave... and then you would still have an adorable Baumesque citron-spangled bantam to be your tiny feathered pal! I'm surprised--a big, mushy guy like you going all cave man over a cute little bantam!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-10027287751344543852011-08-14T07:21:37.034-04:002011-08-14T07:21:37.034-04:00very cool! cant wait till 2012!very cool! cant wait till 2012!Susannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419802372495554966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-89469654202769274912011-08-14T04:23:49.123-04:002011-08-14T04:23:49.123-04:00...oooh, Oziana.
I’ll play. The chicken was named......oooh, Oziana.<br /><br />I’ll play. The chicken was named Bill, but Dorothy felt she should be more appropriately called Billina, as that was more feminine. She first appeared in OZMA OF OZ, book three of Baum’s works that concerned themselves with the land of Oz, which offered an account of the second trip that Dorothy took to Oz as well, by way of Ev, if memory serves.<br /><br />Billina wasElsa Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399605625701167269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70237834223602882992011-08-14T01:31:40.739-04:002011-08-14T01:31:40.739-04:00The citron-spangled bantam doesn't sound so mu...The citron-spangled bantam doesn't sound so much impossible and cunning as it does succulent and delicious!Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223903007561031401noreply@blogger.com