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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Rob's father encourages his son's passion, seeing electricity as the future of civilization. When Rob decides to travel to Havana, for instance, he somehow ends up in Brava, the smallest inhabitable island of the Cape Verde archipelago. That latter innovation, the electric mailbox , was happening for real around that time.)

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