Would it be a fair guess that as the paper grew, you eventually decided somewhere along the line to call it an encyclopedia?
I didn't call it that, but it got accused of being one. I don't know where I put it though...
One of my goals is an annotated script.
I want to add a section now about the connection between Harold Hill and modern-day conspiracy hucksters. They certainly never knew the territory.
One wonders if there's a connection with certain other unique Midwestern words, such as shivaree.
Likely, but inconclusive. Scholars have had good luck tracking down a number of Willson's other fairly obscure vernacularities. The shipoopi eludes capture.
In the final analysis it probably has something to do with Columbus and his conception of the egg.
...er, globe.
Imagine also a game of Iowa Fizzbin on the Rock Island. In one production I did, three actors expanded the "playing a card game" stage direction into an unbelievably complex actual onstage game with rules that seemed borrowed from poker, Calvinball, and quantum mechanics.
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