As Jonah began his trek through the bleak suburban sprawl, the appalling impossibility of his task dawned upon him. He was a foreigner in a strange land. He had been given a message to deliver to an alien people, whose countless dwellings he passed on every side as he trudged through the suburban streets. Perhaps he had been aware that his task could only bring despair when first he had disobeyed the divine command to go to Nineveh. And so, only a day’s journey into Greater Nineveh, and still some