105 years ago today, Virginia Woolf and friends pranked the Royal Navy in drag and turbans http://t.co/KweJc9shMF pic.twitter.com/1AmTRnUe9w
— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) February 7, 2015
A great story. As much as I appreciate the comments about the way media works today, the best observation in the story belongs to Quentin Bell: (Even Bell, decades before 9/11, writes wryly: “We have all grown more solemn and serious and ‘security conscious’ and a part of the fun went out of life after [World War I].”)