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Near the end of the film, as the Wizard of Oz is about to launch his balloon to take Dorothy back to Kansas, he says this: Quote:
I, your Wizard par ardua ad alta, am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere.
What does the Latin mean?
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prolly should be, per ardua ad alta.
through hard work, to the heights (to the stars should be ad astra)
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The quote was taken from a free on-line script archive. Caveat lector!
Anyway, thanks for the translation. Per ardua ad alta. Seem so obvious, now that I know what it means.
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Hydra, could you post the link to that archive? I'd love to look through it.
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This is possibly an intentional "mangling" of the Kansas state motto "Ad astra per aspera" to further illustrate his "humbug-osity" since he is claims to be "an old Kansas man myself...born and bred in the heart of the western wilderness".
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If you google, the phrase "per ardua ad alta", you'll see it's a variant on the RAF motto, per ardua ad astra, and, supposedly, the family motto of the Hanna family.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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