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 September 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. An essay about tennis, tornadoes, and a coming of age, by David Foster Wallace. (Via Heavy.)