Persons attempting to find a "text" in this [story] will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 9 November 2005 by to the following categories: Feature, Stories.
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I wrote recently about taking a vacation from my problems and how I've found a restful refuge near where I work on the Mississippi river. The Hennepin Avenue Bridge is one of the places on the river for which I feel particularly amorous.
