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 29 March 2008 by to the following categories: Stories.
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After a year of riding a fixed-gear without brakes, I decided to add a cheap front calliper and lever (AKA, a Chicken Switch) so I can have some additional stopping power during my impulsive kamikaze bombing runs down by the river. I figure if these guys use one, so should I. Here's a few photos on Flickr.
