- The topic for todays deeploading analysis is the pig in literature and the movies. We have especially invited the Garden Gnome Guide's twin brother, the Book Reading Gnome, to enlighten us on this topic. Pleased to have you with us tonight!
- Thank you very much! I am glad o be invited!
- Now I understand that our picture of the pig isn't just that of those dirty ones moving around in the mud all day. But there is a different picture transferred to us by literature and the movies.
- True, very true! If we begin with the slightly bad picture that is painted or rather written in George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm. The leading character in that novel is Napoleon, a pig that claims there is nobody who is so equal as the pigs. This has caused a lot of damage and some people actually think that pigs has a tendency towards megalomania!
- But there are good images as well, isn't there?
- Yeah, of course we have the ultimate good pig, presented in the old cartoon Who's afraid of the big Bad Wolf. Of course the lead character pig's younger brothers are not much of heroes, but in fact rather spoiled brats if you ask me, and you did... But the oldest one, he is tremendous. What a character! Builds his house with bricks, even the furniture in the house is made by bricks. Which actually in the end is what defeats the Big Bad Wolf. A tiny detail shows the tragedy of the three brothers. On the wall there is a painting of their mother and beside it there is another one of their father. But while the mother is a healthy sow, the father is a sausage...
- Tragedy in everyday life?
- Yeah, surely, no one knows that as the tormented pig population. But if we dig deeper into the world of literature, in Fjodor Dostojevskij's The Possessed, the novel opens with a citation from the Holy Bible, where Jesus meet a mad man and forces the evil spirit to leave him and forces it into a bunch of pigs, that run over a cliff and dies. What kind of story is that? What did those pig do wrong? I'll tell ye, nothin', they did nothin'!
- Mmmm, sad indeed...
- But there are god ones, where the pigs actually strikes back. Pier Paolo Pasolini made a film where one of the characters falls into a pig sty, and is consumed by the pigs. I honour Pasolini, fine man...
- I'll think we'll leave Pasolini.
- Oh, but there are more examples. Take the Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and his wonderful film Porco Rosso, where the main character is a man turned, by magic, into a pig. A flying pig. Fine film and a fine man Miyazaki. Did a lot to improve pig image...
- But how about the Swine Flu, the H1N1?
- That's a really sad story. Probably not even the fault of the pigs. Flues are generally generated when humans, pigs and ducks live to close together. Usually in mainland China. The villain, though, is the duck, not the pig...
- How come?
- Humans and pigs becomes ill, but not the ducks. The virus is transformed inside the duck and spread to the other two... Clearly you see who the perpetrator is...
- We thank the Book Reading Gnome for sharing these deep insights with us and hope for a greater understanding of pigs as living, sensitive and creative beings...
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Deeploading! Hihihihi! That must be one of the best false friends I've ever heard. Or can you actually use deeploading in the same meaning as penetrating?
Yet again a fabulous picture, though.
And that Book Reading Gnome reminds me of Lucius of Lillån! :)
I surely associated that with the Watergate pseudonyme of Deep Throat... and some pratices on old ships...
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