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Sam Nead
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Edited to make it right:

The “capping off” map indeed is a fibre bundle map. However, the fibre is not the configuration space you suggest. For, consider the case of $n = 1$. Here the configuration space would be a copy of the surface, and the larger Teichmuller space would have nontrivial fundamental group! This is obviously wrong.

When $n = 1$, what is actually going on is that the fibre is a copy of the hyperbolic plane.

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