"It's come, what we always knew would come, what we never quite believed in. And deathly calm all about it.... No excitement.... One of the fellows drove us into the city and then Ruthie and I took the streetcar and saw a bright headline. US and Japan near war. And waited in a quiet tavern for another streetcar and got on and gasped to see in black placid letters as though it had been said before: 'Japan Attacks U.S. We are at War.'... Last night ... We went to Capitol to see 'Citizen Kane,' which I didn't understand, as the mental morons I was with made me leave in the middle. Who the heck was Rosebud?"
