Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Pigs are known to be devious plotters, but do they really have a geopolitical plan? They take what they are given – the monkey and the plywood violin – and practice every night until they are ready. First we take Manhattan…
A dichotomy of parenthood and husbandry – consider the toil of childbirth and the future demands of parenthood while a peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
Ambition seems a restless and solitary endeavor, stern, designing, pitiless and totally self-serving. Your potential only realized by solitary accomplishment, fingers stretched towards the next appealing enchantment of rank or fame or power.
Cincinnatians may not all want to admit it, but the town will always be Pigcity – a reference to the time during the early to mid-19th century when Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis.
Impulse vs. reason is a constant struggle where two mutually exclusive entities move in a continuous contradiction to each other in an arduous quest to capture a pig with a slippery tail.