"It's curious to think of the ground between the trenches, a bank 
which is practically never seen by anyone in the daylight, as it is only
 safe to move through it at dark. It's full of dead things, dead animals
 here and there, dead unburied animals, skeletons of horses destroyed by
 shell fire. It's curious to think of it later on in the war, when it 
will again be seen in daylight."
 T.E. Hulme, quoted by John Gray in The Silence of Animals.
