The Contrarian Story of Goliath

David and Goliath is the ultimate contrarian story. It says everything about the appearances of everything on the surface, everything about that story that presents to your eye at first is wrong. The sling in David's hand is not... is an incredibly devastating weapon. And if you read the text of the story of David and Goliath, he begins, with that in mind, that he's a guy suffering from a medical condition which restricts his vision. That suggests to me that that story in its... in the way that it's entered our popular culture has a kind of inappropriate twist put on it.