JULY, 1915. My mouth does not get so dry as once it did, I notice, when walking in from Suicide Corner to the Cloth Hall. There I was this summer day, in Ypres again, in a silence like a threat, amid ruins which might have been in Central Asia, and I, the last man on earth, contemplating them. There was something bumping somewhere, but it was not in Ypres, and no notice is taken in Flanders of what does not bump near you. So I sat on the disrupted pedestal of a forgotten building and smoked, and wondered why I was in the city of Ypres, and why there was a war, and why I was a fool. It was a lovely day, and looking up at the sky over what used to be a school dedicated to the gentle Jesus, which is just by the place where one of the seventeen-inchers has blown a forty-foot hole, I saw a little round cloud shape in the blue, and then another, and then a cluster of them; the kind of soft little cloudlets on which Renaissance cherubs rest their chubby elbows and with fat faces inclined on their hands consider mortals from cemetery monuments. Then dull concussions arrived from heaven, and right overhead I made out two German ’planes. A shell-case banged the pavé and went on to make a white scar on a wall. Some invisible things were whizzing about. One’s own shrapnel can be tactless.

Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958) was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. He was brought up in Poplar, London. He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a reporter for the Morning Leader newspaper; he travelled up the Amazon River for it. In World War I he was an official correspondent for the British Army, in France. In 1917 he returned to work with H. W. Massingham on The Nation, which opposed the war. He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of a change of owner and political line. His works include: The Sea and the Jungle (1912), Old Junk (1918), London River (1921/1951), Waiting for Daylight (1922), Tidemarks / Tide Marks (1924), The Foreshore of England; or, Under the Red Ensign (1926), Gifts of Fortune (1926), Gallions Reach (1927), A Brown Owl (1928), Cote D'Or (1929), Thomas Hardy (1929), Between the Lines (1930), Great Sea Stories of all Nations (edited) (1930), All Our Yesterdays (1930), Out of Soundings (1931), The Snows of Helicon (1933) and others.

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