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Life as a pig, in two parts

Life as a pig, in two parts

18th April, 2009

Here two small adventures illustrative of life as a human imagining life as a pig. Pilgrims or hedonists, you decide…

Posted in Representation, Soapbox, Vocabulary | Tagged 60 Minutes, BBC, CBS, Dolly Parton, Dr. Dolittle, duality, Elysian Mysteries, hedonist, life as a pig, Morley Safer, My Life as an Animal, pilgrim, Richard da Costa, suckling | 1 Response

The Vitruvian Swine

The Vitruvian Swine

29th November, 2008

The Vitruvian Swine is a combination of two familiar and iconic figures in Western culture: the pig and Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man.

Posted in Culture, Lost Littermates, Personal, Soapbox | Tagged da Vinci, duality, faith, Orphic, Pythagoras, science, Vitruvian | Leave a response


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The actual lines of a pig (I mean a really fat pig) are among the loveliest and most luxuriant in nature; the pig has the same great curves, swift and yet heavy, which we see in rushing water or in a rolling cloud.

G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity, (1920).

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