19. Cited in Lukacs, The Last European War, 417. This is not the gloomy fatalism that we get from the recollections of Leonard (and of Virginia) Woolf: “We also crammed as much social life as possible into our four days, having many of our friends for dinner. For instance, in the two London visits of May 21-24 and June 4-7 we saw T. S. Eliot, Koteliansky, William Plomer, Sybil Colefax, Morgan Forster, Raymond Mortimer, Stephen Spender, Kingsley Martin, Rose Macaulay, and Willie Robson.

“There was in those days an ominous and threatening unreality, a feeling that one was living in a bad dream, and that one was on the point of waking up from this horrible unreality into a still more horrible reality.… There was a curious atmosphere of quiet fatalism, of waiting for the inevitable and the aura of it still lingers in the account of our days in London which Virginia gives in her diary” (Leonard Woolf, The Journey Not the Arrival Matters, 53-54)•