While foraging for some background on Virginia Woolf, I went to a link about the Bloomsbury Group, which led me to this link (there are a couple of ads) on the Cambridge Apostles. There are a list of members, many of whom I have actually heard.

So, what I am hoping for your-all's thoughts on is this: are groups like this made up of people who get invited because they have "that special something" already, or does belonging to this type of group tend to give them, or at least enhance, that special je ne sais quoi?