“I wanna fly, I wanna fly
I said I want my chariot to pick me up
And take me brother for a ride.”
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“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”
Elijah to Cyrano
The Other World (1657)
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