"of an event is unlikely to be interesting after it and this may be the reason why my prophetic utterances regarding the Great War took the form of Satire."
— Gilbert Cannan

January 1, 1970

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|location=New York|year=1920|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Windmills.html?id=cvclAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR13|pages=xiii–xvi}} (quote from p. xiii)