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| Where do you suppose she is leading her flock? |
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
(Of course he nourishes and tends his flock. A shepherd tends his flock for profit - either harvesting their wool or selling them for slaughter. Which would you prefer, being fleeced or slaughtered?)
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
(How about following the right paths because its the right thing to do, not to satisfy some supernatural being? Be good for goodness sake?)
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
(Rod and Staff - again, the shepherd image, being comforted as lambs being led to slaughter, their fates realized only at the last moment.)
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
(well, at least until the good Shepherd sells you for profit)
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
(wishful thinking, more likely as a wool coat and turning on a spit)
"Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
Hannibal Lecter: I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...?
Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away.
Hannibal: No "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
Clarice: Early, still dark.
Hannibal: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
Clarice: I heard a strange noise.
Hannibal: What was it?
Clarice: It was... screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice.
Hannibal: What did you do?
Clarice: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.
Hannibal: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see?
Clarice: Lambs. The lambs were screaming.
Hannibal: They were slaughtering the spring lambs?
Clarice: And they were screaming.
Hannibal: And you ran away?
Clarice: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
Hannibal: But you could and you did, didn't you?
Clarice: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could.
Hannibal: Where were you going, Clarice?
Clarice: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
Hannibal: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
Clarice: They killed him.
Are you a sheep?
(Bright)
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