Dec 8, 2021 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“let this day begin again the change of hogs into people, not the other way around, for today we celebrate again our lives’ wedding with the world, for by our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond.” Wendell Berry, ‘For the Hog...
Oct 30, 2013 | The Swineherd of the Odyssey, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
The swineherd then gave orders to his men: ‘Bring in our best pig for a stranger’s dinner. A feast will do our hearts good too; we know grief and pain, hard scrabbling with our swine, while the outsiders live on our labor.’ Bronze axe in hand, he turned to...
Oct 23, 2013 | Good Work, The Swineherd of the Odyssey, Wednesday Quotes
“Of all Odysseus’ field hands in the old days this forester cared most for the estate; and now Odysseus found him in a remote clearing, sitting inside the gate of a stockade he built to keep the swine while his great lord was gone.” Homer, Odyssey, Bk XIV Eumaeus is a...
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