Writing around War Experience Interviewed by the BBC a half-century after his service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Robert Graves recalled the impossibility of relating his World War I experience to family in England: Graves: [T]he idea of being and staying at home was awful because you were with people who didn’t understand what this was all about. [Leslie] Smith: Didn’t you want to tell them? Graves: You couldn’t: you can’t communicate noise. Noise never stopped for one moment—ever. [1]...