His (= Lytton Strachy's) writing appeared to me in those days hilariously amusing. I heard him read Eminent Victorians before it was published, and I read it again to myself in prison. It caused me to laugh so loud that the officer came round to my cell, saying I must remember that prison is a place of punishment.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.１, chap. 3:Cambridge, 1967.
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