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Originally Posted by non sequitur
I like when Saul tells David that instead of a dowry for his daughter, David has to return with a hundred Philistine foreskins. I've always wondered what Saul did with those foreskins. I'm not much for arts and crafts, but I'm guessing with a hundred foreskins you could make something pretty cool.
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This makes me think of the premise of Blood Meridian. Maybe McCarthy intended the scalps as an allusion to foreskins.
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