The chilling discovery of the commandment, “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others” in George Orwell’s fable, Animal Farm, warns of the dystopia to come. But the portrait of porcine dictatorship in Orwell’s satire is a pig in a poke in reality. More intelligent than cats or dogs, pigs are thought to be highly sentient creatures with cognitive abilities […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
On a cold November afternoon, a still dark bird looks down on his watery kingdom. Could this be Graculus, royal bird of the land of Nog? Noggin the Nog was created once upon a time, in a land far away, Britain in the early 1960’s to be exact, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Graculus, the large green bird which flew […]
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