The guinea pig

The guinea pig

In the laboratories of gods and of men, the guinea pig precedes every hypothesis and every certainty.

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?