And So It Goes

 Back around 1930, Don Marquis, writing as archy the cockroach wrote,"...incidentally i wonder why europe of today is always referred to by highbrow writers as post war europe they seem to think that the war which started in nineteen fourteen is over with whereas there have been merely a few brief truces that war is merely worrying through its first half century and will only cease permanently when a generation comes along which has forgotten all the old feuds archy the cockroach"