The Magic Lantern Gazette - Library

The Year of the Pig 23
You Ought to Be in Pigtures
Film director Alfred Hitchcock, born in the Year of the Pig, once
said, "I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when
he saw a young man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his
arm; unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity
of the sound achieved by the pig."
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Alice caught the baby with some difficulty: it was a queer
shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all
directions, "just like a star fish," thought Alice. As she
carried it into the open-air it left off sneezing and began
to grunt. "Don't grunt," said Alice, "That's not at all a
proper was of expressing yourself." But the baby grunted
again. "If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear," said
Alice seriously, "I'll have nothing more to do with you.
Mind now!"
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Dick Moore collection
Another grunt and she looked into its face in some alarm;
there could be no mistake about it, it was neither more
nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd
to carry it any further. So she set it down, and it
trotted quietly away into the wood. "If it had grown up,"
she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly
child, but it makes a rather handsome pig, I think."
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
They often shine as entertainers, social
activists, or politicians.
Some characteristics of people born in the Year of the Pig
Sometime looked upon as a snob, the Pig
just finds it right and natural to exhibit
good manners whenever possible.
Although forced to play the fool many
times, they will just as likely hold fast to
the notion that everyone is at heart decent
and admirable.