Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.
Bacon was once a wholesome food without much associative baggage. But now there is the Bacon Bikini, and a Google search will immediately sweep you off to the next top model world of bacon haute couture and an NSFW industry of sowbellies, gammons, flanks and loins.
Pig or human, find a new or renewed lover, and find that divine drunkenness that we can all enjoy.
For thousands of years, pigs have grunted, squealed and perished, butchered in back alleys, side yards and behind arched cellar doors, the cobbles, dirt, and grass running blood.
The nature of time and memory has haunted humankind through the ages. It tempers our conceptions of mortality, permanence and change. The concepts of time and memory are interdisciplinary – fundamental to the study of religion, social organization and economics as well as philosophy, literature, history and more.
Pigs athwart history – a brief life, lived with a plan to escape the poke of circumstance.
