“There was a little white statue there. Now I'm not artistic. I saw it was of a fellow with no clothes on - I always wonder why it's Art to take your clothes off: they never put in the goose pimples - and this fellow was wrapped in chains. He didn't look as if he was enjoying himself, and small wonder.”

—  Diana Wynne Jones, book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 13.

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