But it also proffers an amazing mystery, one with a rather jaw dropping resolution. This book is going to make you think, a lot. And how we tend to manipulate our own memories to fit a narrative of our own design. Frank Baums, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the quest of the minor characters, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, contribute to their. While brilliant and impressive, this book is not in the least tranquil, ceasely flaunting the lies that we tell, even those we tell ourselves. What he finds instead are more questions.Īre you yourself? Or a variation, an imposter? Do we look at photographs and create moments to go along with them in our mind? When Sean wins, he becomes obsessed with plugging in, sure that all the answers are in there. Where at each meeting they receive challenges, sometimes odd and unsettling, sometimes deadly.Īt the latest the prize is the Memory Palace, a box that allows its possessor to relive every moment they have ever experienced, all playing out on screen. Nearly two decades later, just as his life is back on track, he is involuntarily awarded membership into a bizarre group of widowers assembled by his eccentric boss. Sean was there when his wife was murdered but is tormented by the fact that he cannot recollect a single detail of how it happened. He makes his debut appearance in the third chapter of the novel titled How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. His first appearance was in Baums first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. Frank Baum, author and creator of the Oz legacy. It’s the nebulous grasp we have on perception this illustrates that forms one of the key bedrocks of this complex and intriguing book. The other key is memory… The Scarecrow is a fictional character invented by L. There is a theory, unwavering for many, that in a single frame of The Wizard Of Oz, the scarecrow has a gun.
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