It should be realised that men will take enormous risks rather than be bored. War has been used before now to prevent a bored populace from getting i… - J. B. Priestley

Fully to appreciate a play we have to maintain a delicate balance between what is taking place apparently on two different levels of the mind. On one level we are involved in the drama, are living imaginatively with its characters. On the other level we are enjoying a performance by actors on a stage, being fully aware that we are in a theatre.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.