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The thing with hoaxes is that they work \\u2013 and that\\u2019s a good reason for not liking them, says Clive James. Although, he has himself performed his own convincing hoax in the past \\u2013 as have writers Virginia Woolf and Evelyn Waugh \\u2013 Clive says there is a streak of the self-congratulation in every hoaxer, which he finds hard to admire.