Reading The Bible. The Book of Samuel: It's All That.

To summarize, you have Abigail (played by Angelina Jolie) married to Nabal (whose name means “Fool,” played by Danny Devito). The Law of the LORD is perfect. “She can’t mean…? Does she mean…? I think she means…!”

Anybody can tell you in the first three minutes of that movie that there’s going to have to be a reorientation of these relationships before the end of the tale.  There’s a lack of balance.

David, played by Jude Law, sends messengers to Nabal to demand that he pony up some grub and wine on a feast-day, because, well, hey, nothing bad has happened to your stuff… yet.

The ambiguities in her speech are worth noting.

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