August 2011
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Over The Rainbow Reprise [Outtake/Alternate Version]
Wizard Of Oz
Judy Garland - Over the Rainbow (Reprise)
This reprise of ‘Over the Rainbow’ ended up being cut from the final version of the film. It has an additional chorus that is sung by Dorothy while she’s locked in a room in the witch’s castle, helplessly awaiting death as the witch’s hourglass runs out. Dorothy weeps her way through it, unable to finish, concluding with a tear-filled, “I’m frightened, Auntie Em – I’m frightened!”
I didn’t even know this reprise existed before yesterdat. This song means so much to me already and I have such love for Judy Garland and the struggles she went through, that listening to her voice breaking with tears as she sings this, it’s too much.
“And maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books we’ve read, but the state in which they leave us. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.”
—Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books, translated by Natasha Wimmer (via bookoasis)
