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9Marks Explained : A Letter From Mark Dever

Let the Reader Understand

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I laughed at the warning located at the beginning of Wendell Berry's novel Jayber Crow (which is a great read, BTW):
 
NOTICE
Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book 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

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