Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
So it has been said that St. Anthony’s favorite swine could speak, even when other groveling pigs could only squeak. Unfortunately, from today, the only ‘foreign’ translations available here will be our pig-Latinized ‘lorem ipsum’ — “Oremlay ipsumyay olorday itsay ametyay, onsectetuercay adipiscingyay elityay.”. The translation service from the WordPress plugin, Global Translator, has been terminated.
Be careful what you wish for?… No worries if you are a pig bred for truffle hunting, in which case you will never get your wish. And that’s too bad, for truffles are one of the few things in life that does live up to the fantasies…
Here are photos from the second place winner in the Alexia Foundation’s 2010 student competition promoting photojournalism as an agent for change against social injustice.
“Swineherd: the salaried gypsy with a domestic mind” was submitted by Muhammad Murtada, a native of Bangladesh, and a third year photojournalism student at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy.
The abstraction of pigs and gods is an act of individuals, but the idea of an “offering” is merely the waste of substance for a payment of shadows.
What might it be in the British character or psyche that promotes their regular consideration of putting a saddle on a pig? Thinking about saddled sows and bridled boars seems to be a very old tradition in Great Britain.