Pigs and Blankets

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

The recent exchanges about pizza and such reminded me of a favorite boyhood
book series starring Freddy the Pig.  Said pig can talk to people, puts on
baseball games and the like and has a coterie of interesting farm critter pals.
It's all rather enjoyable, but perhaps a tad too bucolic for postmodern tastes.
Sometimes, though, it reaches the bizarre.  In FREDDY THE DETECTIVE, Freddy
lures a hungry villain out of hiding by cooking bacon!  There is no apparent
awareness of the irony of this cannibalistic act.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)




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John (Jody) K. Gilbert
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
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