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Letter: Barely literate

Published 13 April 2011

From Tony Compton

Has anyone pointed out the delightful Freudian nature of your error in the passage: “there is a depiction of a horned bison hovering over the lower body of a naked woman that bares an uncanny resemblance to Picasso’s etching” (12 March, p 54)?

Hexham, Northumberland, UK

Issue no. 2808 published 16 April 2011

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