a prisoner no more

Patrick McGoohan has died.
He was 80 years old.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E )

May he rest in peace.

where is Glinda?

I was paged last night to take care of a computer problem just as I was trying to go to sleep. The situation was resolved quickly, but, after I went back to bed, I found myself thinking of various SF-related things, and of my first worldcon, the one in Boston in 1980, where GoH Damon Knight talked about his youth and his disappointement that The Wizard of Oz had turned out to be a dream, and how the adults had asked him what else it could have been.

I tried to sleep while wondering if Oz could really have been an alternate reality caused by some quantum phenomenon. As I thought about how the main characters of Oz had a counterpart in our world, something occurred to me.

Where is Glinda's counterpart?

And is there something in Dorothy's genetic material that explains why she has no equivalent in Oz? A genetic quirk might explain why her aunt and uncle also don't exist in Oz.

But what of the Wizard? He tells Dorothy that he isn't from Oz, but he can't be from here because he has a counterpart here. Could he be from yet another reality?

I blame Michael Burstein's story collection, I Remember the Future, especially the tales of a parallel universe that can be reached thru the Superconducting SuperCollider in Waxahachie, Texas, for my cogitations's taking me into such territory.