> Do you think a fat pig is beautiful? Like a hairy fat pig that snorts and rolls in the mud… is this animal so beautiful to you that you would want to make love to this animal?
I don't want to make love to the night sky, so that last bit is completely irrelevant to the question of beauty. As for whether a pig is beautiful, sure, in its own way. I think they're nice animals and there is something beautiful in seeing them enjoy their little lives.
> Of course not! Because pigs are intrinsically and universally ugly...
I did read Charlotte’s Web. The whole story is a lesson in how beauty is created by language. Wilbur doesn’t become beautiful because he changes, but because someone clever enough decided to write the right words above him. That’s what beauty usually is something we agree to see, not something that exists on its own.
And Miss Piggy understood that better than anyone. She didn’t have beauty, she performed it. She made desire itself her act.
So yes, I read both. Maybe that’s exactly why I don’t mistake the show for the substance.
I don't want to make love to the night sky, so that last bit is completely irrelevant to the question of beauty. As for whether a pig is beautiful, sure, in its own way. I think they're nice animals and there is something beautiful in seeing them enjoy their little lives.
> Of course not! Because pigs are intrinsically and universally ugly...
It would seem not.