ABSTRACT
As you can imagine, Mummy and I read any scraps we can get from you and friends and others – even from papers – about what is going on. 1 The only thing we can be sure of discovering is that we don’t know, can’t know and never shall know. I once – I am talking about the first war – felt sure that at the end I should know, if I was still in existence, who had won. Well, I know that I don’t know, but I think I know we did not. Even that I am not sure of; you can see it depends where you write FINIS; the end of the first day of the Cambrai battle? End of first week, month, year? Century perhaps? You see how complicated a simple question like, ‘Who won the Battle of Cambrai?’ turns out to be. Anyhow, you and others must be damned cold – with the fear of being colder still if it is not possible to earn a living or get anyone else to do it for us.
