No, Jonah’s not going to move in with me. Walter Freeman’s been sleeping on the sofa for ages and I just don’t have room for another self-centered dead guy.
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No, I’m not going to post the whole thing again. But I am pleased with how this came out. Compare the original version.
The quote is from the unfortunately named Hyman Fingert. Maybe if you have a name like Hyman Fingert it’s inevitable that you’ll become a psychoanalyst and see sex organs in everything.
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s Jonah all in one place, finally. Like him and the Ninevites, we all have much to be thankful for.
This is the only time in the book that Jonah is happy about anything. Needless to say, it won’t last.
Jonah’s gourd probably isn’t a gourd at all, but a mistranslated castor-oil plant. “Gourd of the LORD” is more fun to say, though.
At this point, as he hopes against hope that God will change his mind and destroy Nineveh anyway, I like to imagine Jonah as Beavis, shaking his clenched fists in front of him: “Smite them! Smite them! Yeah! Uh, that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…