On the night of 1st April he tricks his creditors into helping him to inflate the balloon. He constructs a balloon that will carry him all the way to the moon. Hans Phaall, a bankrupt bellows-mender from Rotterdam, thinks up an ingenious scheme to get rid of his creditors and to escape from his dreary existence. The perilous balloon flight lasts nineteen. As soon as the contraption is ready to take off, Hans Phaall gives his creditors the slip and kills them in an explosion.
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