Lord Grey remarked that when the generals before the war talked about the war they talked about it as a nineteenth-century war although to be fought with twentieth-century weapons. That is because war is a thing that decides how it is to be done when it is to be done…. Writing and painting and all that, is like that, for those who occupy themselves with it and don’t make it as it is made.

— Gertrude Stein: Writings and Lectures 1909-1945 by Gertrude Stein, Patricia Meyerowitz (Page 21 - 22)