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 12 January 2009 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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Sydney posed for me over the weekend. I call it "the beehive":
Is that the stress from having a new baby in the house showing? What in the world happened?
Her ears are getting so long that I can just turn them up and set them on top of her head. They just kind of stick to each other and make it look like she’s wearing a wig. Nice effect huh?