We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a great age that has not come off. We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.
Source: Blasting and Bombardiering, pt. 5, The Period of `Ulysses', `Blast', `The Waste Land' (1937).
-- Wyndham Lewis, (Nov 18 1882-1957), English author, painter; He founded the abstract Vorticist movement, which, in painting and literature before WW I, sought to relate art to the industrial process.