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The gods watch all our planning

The gods watch all our planning

30th June, 2011

When they even bother, the gods’ orchestrations will trump the plans of both pigs and men; but at best we are usually just the soap operas that blunt their tedium.

Posted in Farm and Trade, Soapbox | Tagged flies, gods, swineherd | Leave a response

A waste of swine

A waste of swine

13th May, 2011

The abstraction of pigs and gods is an act of individuals, but the idea of an “offering” is merely the throwing away of substance for a payment of shadows.

Posted in Personal, Soapbox | Tagged gods, ritual | 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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