His writing appeared to me in those days hilariously amusing. I heard him ( = Lytton Strachey) 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
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