The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical…

The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

1928

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Priestley, J. B. "First Snow." Apes and Angels. Methuen, 1928.

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