A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic by Turchi Peter

Author:Turchi, Peter [Turchi, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781595341945
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2014-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

The poem, no matter how charged its content, will not survive on content but on voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech—the clever grafts and borrowings, the habitual gestures scattered like clues in the lines—never convincingly substitutes.

— LOUISE GLÜCK

In the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, when Dorothy and her friends finally reach the Emerald City, they quiver in fear and awe at being in the presence of “the great and powerful” Wizard of Oz. But the wizard’s authority rests largely on reputation and rhetoric, and Toto, like most dogs, is not impressed by such things. Taking a curtain in his teeth, Toto pulls it aside to reveal an ordinary man speaking into a microphone, tugging frantically at various levers and knobs in order to create towers of flame and other indications of “greatness.” Exposed, he makes one last desperate attempt to maintain the fiction: “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” he tells them.

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