Today is Guy Fawkes Day


The skin is pallid, the cheeks touched with pink. The eyes are holes. And the smile is frozen, set forever, a fixed uncanny moustachioed grin above a devilish goatee beard. The mask, which was made famous by the movie “V,” has become one of the symbols of the Occupy movement.

The Guardian published this article on Guy Fawkes, the anarchist whose face is the model for the mask. Read more.

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