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 13 September 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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Terrible terrible news. David Foster Wallace hanged himself tonight. Gawker has an excerpt from a 2005 speech he gave, in which he addressed suicide. (Via Daring Fireball.)