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 27 February 2009 by to the following categories: Stories.
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On Sunday, Niles will be 9 weeks old! It's been so great to get to know him, and discover what it means to be a dad. Here's a couple of photos from the first 9 weeks:
There's more where this came from at Smugmug.