“Whistling Dixie” is a idiom that means you are engaged in wishful thinking. It seems to have been used of Southerners after the American Civil War who wished “…the South would rise again.”
“You ain’t just whistling Dixie!” means the opposite: What you said is true.
Regardless, I hope you have as much fun reading these essays as I did writing them.
I bet you never thought of Anakin (Darth Vader) Skywalker and Dorothy Gale as the same sort of characters? I never would have either, if not for Gregory Maguire…
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A thought about Lucasfilm and Disney.
