Birinci Dunya Savasi ve Avrupanin Kokenleri'ni iceren eserleriylr taninan Ingiliz tarihci ve universite hocalarindan James Bysse Joll’un dogum yildonumu ( 21 Haziran 1918 )
“ 1910 yilinda aralarinda yuzunu siyaha boyayip bir de takma sakal ekleyen yazar Virginia Woolf'un da bulundugu bir grup genc Ingiliz donanmasinin en geliskin savas gemisi ve Ingiliz - Alman donanma uretiminin son urunu olan HMS Dreadnoughy'un subaylarini, kendilerinin Habesistan Imparatoru ile maiyeti olduklarina inandirmis ve krallar gibi agirlamislardir. Ilk anda insana sulu bir saka gibi gelse de yasamoykusu yazarin belirttigine gore, Virginia Woolf ‘ bundan, erkeklerin zalimlik ve aptalliklari hakkinda yepyeni cikarsama yapmistir. ’ "
“ In 1910 when a group of young people, including the writer Virginia Woolf with her blackened and a false beard, succeeded in persuading the officers of HMS Dreadnought, the most up-to-date ship of the British navy and the latest product of the Anglo-German naval race, that they were the emperor of Abyssinia and his suite, and were given a suitably imperial reception. Although this was conceived just as a practical joke, Virginia Woolf 'came out of it', as her biographer writes, ' with a new sense of the brutality and silliness of men '. ”


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