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 17 January 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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Thanks to EA, Jayber is being hosted on a new server, and I'm exploiting the opportunity to realign the design. Things are a bit broken at the moment, but if you have any input, let me know.