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“And again: ‘But then the snow will cover the ice.’ For a moment each one of them thought of something sad: funerals or something similar. That was what it sounded like. The lake was black and shining like steel for the last time. There had been a cold, but marvellous skating season for a long time. Today it would end, today the snow would come.”

Vesaas, Tarjei, "The Ice Palace"