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there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever. In three months, at most, I shall be at Zanzibar, where I will inflate my balloon, and from that point we shall launch ourselves. The tank of soapsuds, and the air-pumps to inflate the bubbles, were out of sight beneath, so that when the bubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform it really seemed like magic to the people of Oz, who knew nothing about even the common soap-bubbles that our children blow with a penny clay pipe and a basin of soap-and-water. |
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