“Balsamo walked over to the elevator, and with a stamp of the foot, caused it to carry him down to the other floor. Mute, crushed by the genius of this wizard, he was forced to believe in impossible things by his doing them.”

—  Alessandro Cagliostro

Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

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