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 12 May 2007 by to the following categories: Family.
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Mandy and I got a chance to babysit Carter and Watson the other day. It was a nice night and so we spent most of the time outside. Both Carter and Watson kept repeatedly running full sprints to the neighbors house and back. Read on for a few photos. The full set is on Flickr here, or you can see a slideshow of the same.