Comments on: Matthew Levine and Robert Haydon Jones

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:48:01 +0000

Matthew, Your work is powerful, evocative and I respond from unspeakable places! Fantastic!

By: Mark Liberman

Mark Liberman — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:24:26 +0000

Brought me back to many a tale of terror I escaped in the caverns of the streets I ran through. Thank you Jonsey for allowing me to feel my humanity.

By: Ed Lambertson

Ed Lambertson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:08:40 +0000

A very interesting,disturbing and entertaining story—put me in touch with a couple of my own “dirty little secrets” that I’ve been carrying around way too long,,,well done!

A haunting painting that I look froward to seeing “Up close”

By: malachy

malachy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:47:29 +0000

What a great stunning tale .I lived that hold up having faced a black gun barrel years ago and calmly wondered what it would feel like to have a bullet tear through my brain Terror indeed is the word

By: Carl Jacobs

Carl Jacobs — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:43:13 +0000

Fluid,warm and exhilarating at the same time. Almost all that was in Freud was in Shakespeare, but one consistent theme in Freud’s work was his view on trauma. It remains the single most consistent aspect of his theoretical edifice. What makes that possible for Freud is the idea that trauma does not come only from the external world, but more often as not it comes from the internal. Jim is shown to have experienced both, it is the internal that will hold longer.

By: Dave Monroe

Dave Monroe — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:32:59 +0000

Trauma survivors will get this story right off. First, there is the trauma. Then, 9 out 10 times, one is traumatized again, or what’s called secondary trauma. Leaving one more isolated and alone, as this story portrays. And the overwhelming emotions of guilt and shame that engulf — almost unbearable. Moving story. Haunting painting, too.

By: Sean Beaudoin

Sean Beaudoin — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:26:39 +0000

Very interesting piece, RHJ. I found the comment about the violence in Shakespeare to be right on the money. And I really like the painting as well.

By: lawyerdan

lawyerdan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:22:30 +0000

The only problem I have with this piece is that it ended too soon. I wanted more, much more, of this story. What happened next? You can’t leave us hanging like this.

By: mattalevine1

mattalevine1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:55:58 +0000

Great Painting Matthew.

By: Charles L. DeFanti

Charles L. DeFanti — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:53:19 +0000

Again, Jones’s nuances pick up the details available only to fiction. You don’t have to ask whether these incidents are “real.” They’re not. They’re more than real. I felt the crime victim’s terror intimately.