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 30 December 2005 by to the following categories: Family.
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A few weeks ago we had Benson Christmas in Minneapolis, and in late November we had Thanksgiving in Taylor's Falls; here's photo highlights from both.
I love the new photograph of the bridge on the front page.
I like it too. It’s the Hennepin Ave Bridge in Minneapolis.