It takes very special qualities to devote one's life to problems with no attainable solutions and to poking around in dead people's garbage: Words like 'masochistic', 'nosy,' and 'completely batty'
spring to mind.
Paul Bahn. 1989. Bluff Your Way in Archaeology. Ravette Books, West Sussex.
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