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BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 19 December 2005 by to the following categories: Feature, Stories.
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I just finished my inagural semester of graduate school at the University of Minnesota and it wasn't without anguish. This fortnight, my classmates were grumbling to our professor about how much work we were being assigned. His response:
The beatings will continue until morale improves; and by the way, Merry Christmas.
Now that I'm finished for a while and the Yuletide Beatings have temporarily been restrained, I hope to continue mental stimulation for the next month until classes start up again. Any ideas? Besides Sudoku and the fish of course.