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The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word "saucepan" in it several times...
The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word "saucepan" in it several times...
Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
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- Diana Wynne Jones
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- Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1934 to 2011; Wikidata Q236829, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236829 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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