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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Bathroom Monologue: Revenge of Pigs

The Pigs were mistrusted, distrusted and even disdained after the revolution, so their generosity was surprising to many, especially to horses. The farm fell on hard times without centralized management, and it turned out winter kind of sucked as far as food supplies. Their offer of unlimited grazing appealed at first to the forgiving, and then to the hungry. The Pigs promised hundreds of miles of land for which any beast could sup on all the grass they found, open to everyone, refusing no one. They would even stay here, refusing to eat of the foreign grass and look after the farm while the other animals ate abroad. It was their attempt to show they were more equal than others. Day by day their haters dwindled, largely in the face of no local vegetation, joining the steady stream of free-thinking critters excited for a free meal. They’d never heard of a “tundra” before, but they couldn’t wait to get there.

2 comments:

  1. Ouch. My Grade 8 teacher showed us the animated film of Animal Farm, and I've never been able to read a single word of Orwell's since. Still creeps me out.

    Nice extension on the metaphor.

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  2. Can you trust a pig? ^__^ Actually I've never read animal farm - so many books and so little time.

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