Hello Bob,   
      
    BK>> Like I said, don't take what Lee says too seriously.   
      
    AK>> Well, don't take my words too seriously either. Many of   
    AK>> what I say I say just for process. ;)   
      
   BK>Oh my... we might start confusing you with Lee.   
      
   Just you wait 'til he tells you about John Carter on Mars.  ;)   
      
   You have to keep in mind that Alexander is Russian.  And Russians   
   know what is real and what is not real.  For example, Russians know,   
   without the shadow of a doubt, that the wonderful land of OZ is a   
   very real place, and not some fantasy -   
      
   "The unique thing about OZ is that it is a real place: Dorothy   
   is carried there not by magic or a flying carpet -- she's carried   
   there by a cyclone which picks her up.  Incidentally, it's rather   
   curious -- this book has been very popular in Russia -- when the   
   Russians translated it, they realized that if a cyclone picks up   
   a house it would leave the floor because the floor is nailed down   
   leaving Dorothy and Toto sitting on the floor.  So they put Dorothy   
   in a wagon, like a gypsy wagon, so the wind could get underneath and   
   carry that off and this was important because otherwise you break the   
   logic of the sequence.  This has to be real.  Oz can be mapped --   
   fairyland can't be -- OZ is a real place, you see."   
   (From an interview with Daniel Mannix, author of "The Fox & The Hound")   
      
   And if that isn't enough -   
      
   "OZ -- where the young stay young, and the old grow young forever.   
   This book is for readers of all ages." - Ray Bradbury, OZ specialist   
      
   So there you have it.  OZ is real.  John Carter on Mars is real.   
   And so is Tarzan (more on that later).   
      
   --Lee   
      
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