GRGR(25) - The Grace of Pigs

[David Morris]

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(555.11)  They were good company. [...] ...possessed by innocence they 
couldn't lose...
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(Psalm 44:22) Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are 
counted as sheep [or pigs] for the slaughter.
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Though preterite by their inescapable nature, and more so by the "company" 
they keep, these same qualities bestow upon William Slothrop's pigs a 
certain nobility in the eyes of their destroyer-companion, William.  Like 
Slothrop with his trees, again we have the ruminations of the killer about 
the nature of his prey, and an attempt at a reconciliation with the nature 
of existence together, Preterite and Elite.

_On Preterition_ is William's reconciliation with the "necessary evil" of 
the cosmos, which is filled with hordes of Preterite throughout history, and 
only a handful of Elite spared from destruction.  In essence William's 
reasoning is a reconciliation of God with Justice, because God's ass was 
hanging out there exposed, and it wasn't all shiny-bright, no matter what 
Moses saw.  With _On Preterition_ William hands God some clothes to cover 
himself.

David Morris
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