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Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch...
Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he was ordered on a propaganda mission to Nineveh, the pleasure went out of it. Why pick on him, said Jonah, he wasn't interested in joining the ragged martyrs. He wanted to be good but he wanted to make some money too. He argued, he whined, he got uppity. Nevertheless, said the Lord, you're going to Nineveh, like...
...charge of lowering the morals of U. S. public life. Just then Franklin Roosevelt's second Peace plea was made public (see p. 9), and Mr. Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded on every front page in the land...
...summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
...from earliest recorded times right down to the Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen hundred years as any other single factor. And not only did the Jewish religion give birth to the Christian, but its contributions...