Once upon a time there was a pig who spoke eight languages & did sculpture with pieces of wood & rusted metal he found on his travels. One day he was out in the woods working on a new installation piece & he met a family from a small town in Tennessee. They had been walking for days. The dad saw the pig & said what are you doing, little piggie? They were all quite surprised when the pig said working with counterbalanced forces using found objects. They all stood around & looked at the piece for a long time. No one said anything. Finally, the dad shrugged & turned to the mom & said I don't know much about art but I know what I like & then they killed the pig & ate him.
strange how some people immediately realise the hurt and critique on society in this story while others find it ironic and even a subject for laughter. It just summons up how wrong and twisted people's minds are.
20 July 2010
Alisha :
I agree that it is about man's brutality. I am a vegetarian, and this quote to me is very telling about how people disregard anything that contradicts, or perhaps makes them feel guilty about their desire to eat meat. Now the intelligence of the pig in this quote it immensely exaggerated, but it has been found that pigs do however have intelligence par to a human 3 year old child, yet we roast em
I always enjoy these terse stories -- wouldn't miss them. Today's, however, startled me. I thought the ending was uncalled for and brutal, and unnecessary to the story -- there were so many other options for bringing it to an end that would have been whimsical and fanciful in accord with your usual creative accounts. I cannot handle accounts of brutality to animals anymore -- so this one shook
