Fieldwork and textual exegesis

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Academic interpretation gets its comeuppance:

Fieldworkers beware… For more and less successful enterprises, see fieldwork category. And for more from Dud, see Dud’n’Pete tag, not least the psalm, and his Britten spoof in Stella Gibbons’s brilliant Em creeps in with a pie.

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