“England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war madness that ran about everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language; and it was newspaper language.”

— Robert Graves

Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 21.

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