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 24 December 2008 by to the following categories: Family, Residuals.
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This year, we had a family Christmas at the Schumann's. Unfortunately, Mom, Dad, and Karen couldn't make it due to illness. Here's a quick video that Mandy put together of the festivities: