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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Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, just won album of the year. Still, one of my favorite albums of all time is H.H.'s tribute to Gershwin.