{"id":2144,"date":"2004-07-23T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/07\/23\/2144.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:08","slug":"book-report-over-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/07\/23\/book-report-over-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Over the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dang. I wish I’d jotted down the table of contents for Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination<\/I> (London: Octopus 1983). It had H.G. Wells’ “The Truth about Pyecraft<\/a>”, I know, and a bit out of the Oz books with the Sawhorse and Jack Pumpkinhead, and Dr. Doolittle meeting the pushmi-pullyu<\/a>, and the Bilbo and Gollum’s riddle game, and “Rip Van Winkle<\/a>”, and a Joan Aiken story called “Harriet’s Hairloom”, and something out of the Narnia books, and a chapter<\/a> from The Phoenix and the Carpet<\/I>, and a bunch of other stuff besides. About a third of it was stuff I hadn’t read; some of the stuff I hadn’t read was good enough that I’d like to remember who wrote it. Ah, well.\n

By the way, off the top of your head (no looking, now), do you remember how long Rip van Winkle slept? YHB knows it a version quite different from Mr. Irving’s version. As it’s necessary to tell the story while crossing the Tappan Zee bridge, it’s awkward to think we’ve been telling it wrong the whole time. Or, of course, that Mr. Irving told it wrong...\n

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Dang. I wish I\u2019d jotted down the table of contents for Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (London: Octopus 1983). It had H.G. Wells\u2019 \u201cThe Truth about Pyecraft\u201d, I know, and a bit out of the Oz books…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17062,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}