A scene from The Wizard of Oz 1939
Dorothy

Why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe?

Professor Marvel

Do you know any? Oh, you mean the thing. [gesturing to his sign] I never do anything without consulting my crystal first. Let's go inside, and I'll show you..This is the same, genuine magic authentic crystal used by the priests of Isis and Osiris in the days of the Pharaohs of Egypt, in which Cleopatra first saw the approach of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. And so on and so on. Now, you, uh, you'd better close your eyes for a moment, my child, so I can be in better tune with the infinite. [looks through her basket] We can't do these things without reaching out into the infinite. That's all right now, you can open them. We'll look into the crystal. What's this I see? A house with a picket fence and a barn with a weather vane of a...of a... running horse.

Dorothy

That's our farm.

Professor Marvel

I see a woman. She's wearing a polka-dot dress. Her face is careworn.

Dorothy

That's Auntie Em.

Professor Marvel

Her name is Emily.

Dorothy

That's right. What's she doing?

Professor Marvel

Well I, uh, I can't quite see. Why, she's crying. Someone has hurt her. Someone has just about broken her heart.

Dorothy

Me?

Professor Marvel

Well, it's uh, someone she loves very much. Someone she's been very kind to. Someone she's taken care of in sickness.

Dorothy

I had the measles once and she stayed right by me every minute. What's she doing now?

Professor Marvel

Well, she's, uh...What's this? Well, she's, she's putting her hand on her heart. Oh, she's, she's dropping down on the bed.

Dorothy

Oh, no, no, no.

Professor Marvel

Uh, that's it, the crystal's gone dark.

Dorothy

You don't suppose she could really be sick, do you? Oh, I've got to go home right away.

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