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 23 August 2007 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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Video from my Dad's recent trip to Drabiv, Ukraine. Fast forward to 1:31 to see him doing the Hawaiian War Chant in a hula skirt and coconut bra.