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I just watched Oz the Great and Powerful, the big-budget fanfic prequel film to The Wizard of Oz. Hardly a rationalist movie, but there was some nice boosting of science and technology where I didn't expect it. So here's the quotation:
(There's more, but this is all that I could get out of the Internet and my memory.)
I haven't seen the movie, but that sounds awfully familiar. It doesn't sound consistent with the Oz books or any of the big-name fanfic out there (Wicked, etc.), but I wonder if it might have shown up in some similar context.