“People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

First lines.
Source: Dalemark Quartet, Drowned Ammet (1977), p. 223.

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