Mrs. Pinchbeck’s Ballet School for Gilts
The newest members of Mrs. Pinchbeck’s Ballet School for Gilts crowd the walls and corners of the rehearsal hall as the full senior squad perform a dress rehearsal of Swine Lake.
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.
The newest members of Mrs. Pinchbeck’s Ballet School for Gilts crowd the walls and corners of the rehearsal hall as the full senior squad perform a dress rehearsal of Swine Lake.
Necessary consolations are sought in the distances of slumber. For the swineherd and his charges, dreams are the lens through which the day’s endeavors are dissected. And together, their minds marshal a virtual library of our past circumstances toward that goal.
Piggy banks have a powerful force that holds our financial assets tightly to their hearts. The smiling little pig banks look at us as if saying, “do you really want to do this?” when we approach them for some legal tenderness.
The truffle is a nut of the earth, found for humans by pigs. In their hot and drowsy world of co-existence, both these creatures find these musky tubers something savory and mysterious…
Pigs are known to be devious plotters, but do they really have a geopolitical plan? They take what they are given – the monkey and the plywood violin – and practice every night until they are ready. First we take Manhattan…