Too long in the library #2

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from Terry Eagleton’s piece in the LRB, 3oth April 2009:

During the Second World War, a woman was interned for five months when the authorities discovered an entry in her diary reading ‘Destroy British Queen. Install Italian Queen.’ She turned out to be a beekeeper.

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