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  1.  @TheOfficialOzClub  Right you are! If Baum was trying to convey a secret message with the Oz books, the message is revealed in the third one, OZMA OF OZ. And the message is: Wagner's operas are lots and lots of fun!
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  2. Lewis Carroll said that when people asked him what he meant when he wrote THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. He always answered something like: "I'm sure it means something, but I don't know what."
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  3. Another thing worth knowing about L. Frank Baum: he was a Wagner-freak. The third Oz book, OZMA OF OZ, is obviously directly lifted, with minimal changes, from Wagner's opera DAS RHEINGOLD. And in his non-Oz fantasy book JOHN DOUGH AND THE CHERUB, he has a character who is a composer, and plays music which sounds like "someone pounding the keys of the piano with a sledge-hammer", and shouts "I am great! I am greater than Vogner himself! Some people understand Vogner a little, but no one will ever understand my music at all! I am wonderful! I am superb!"
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  4. OK, but then what do the Kalidas (bodies like bears, heads like tigers) represent? How about the Hammerheads? And the dainty china country?
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