Friday, December 9, 2011

The Book of Jonah


Underneath all his [her] preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter)  there is, quite simply, a person tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
                                                                                                                - Lawrence Durrell


Jonah Mowry is a 13 year-old  middle school student who risks sharing his pain with any who will listen to his four-and-a-half minute story. 

Commentary is unnecessary.

Your internal response will be commentary enough.