The Phantom Tollbooth

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(thing) by gbnewby (?) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:09:33

Book by Norton Juster. Milo is a bored child... for him, everything sucks until a purple tollbooth arrives mysteriously.

Milo drives through in his toy car, and discovers a magical land. He is befriended by Tock the dog (and timekeeper), meets a humbug and discovers it's hard to swim back from conclusions.

This is important reading for budding SciFi fans and Illuminati, along with Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time.

(idea) by krsi (5.9 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Jan 10 2001 at 22:33:09

Milo's weapon was a pencil.

The wizard awarded it to him because he poked holes in the wizards logic and pointed out that the wizard, who publicly believed that he could never agree with his buddy, in fact agreed to disagree with his buddy. By aligning himself at a pole of negativity, he became out of balance. He showed the wizard the errors of his ways, and offered a different perspective.

The wizard was pleased by this demonstration, and in reward gave Milo the most powerful weapon of all.

...A pencil.

Used wisely, the wizard told Milo that with it he would have all the power he ever needed to do or defeat anything in the world.

His weapons were words, and numbers.

Watching this movie, being a hacker, was one of the most influencial moments in my life.

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A Wrinkle in Time	How to carve a dodecahedron out of a cube	Illuminati	Tock the Watchdog
King Azaz the Unabridged	It can't rain all the time	Mathemagician	Norton Juster
Harry Potter	Smallest number greater than 0	Milo	Everything Sucks
Princess Leia the Yodel of Life	David Lynch	The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All	Xanth
Jules Feiffer	Piers Anthony	humbug	You're evil
Chuck Jones	point of view	The Zealot Train	Chuck Palahniuk

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