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The time Virginia Woolf Hoaxed the Navy

A great story. As much as I appreciate the comments about the way media works today, the best observation in the story belongs to Quentin Bell: (Even Bell, decades before 9/11, writes wryly: “We have all grown more solemn and serious and ‘security conscious’ and a part of the fun went out of life after [World War I].”)