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 11 February 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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The National MS Society is having a series of 150-mile bike rides this summer to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research and treatment. One of the races goes from Duluth to Blaine. Mandy and I are thinking of riding, so if anyone else wants to join in, let us know.