Overture: the scene opens on a frigid mud encrusted battleground; the valley floor is strewn with the mangled dead, limbs pointing up at a pale cloudless sky; the valley is named “the 20th century” and two hills littered with the emaciated bodies of a million heroes bare mildew smothered signs reading “Church” and “State”. A sleeping hero among the bodies begins to stir.

Do you understand?