A Trespass of Swine

the Porkopolis blog

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 pork butcher’s daughter

The pork butcher’s daughter

For the pork butcher’s daughter, beauty is a paradox, at once eternal and transitory, absolute and particular, yet it is always rendered down in the kettle of our emotions.

The form of a pig

The form of a pig

To forget the world and yourself for a while and, in the form of a pig, to wallow with the swine, is that not perhaps the finest luxury?

Delight in existing

Delight in existing

Before you laugh again at the fat and dirty pig, consider just how happy you are right now, do you delight in existing? Then look again, do you feel some envy now?

A complacent hog

A complacent hog

Complacent hog, woman or man – when the angels, fates or devils tap us on the shoulder, how and why do we choose to listen?

A random image of a pig, hog, boar or swine from the collection at Porkopolis.