WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.200 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:02.940 align:middle line:84% Well, then the next one, "The Bride," 00:00:02.940 --> 00:00:06.810 align:middle line:84% tells about the going to be bred. 00:00:06.810 --> 00:00:09.630 align:middle line:84% And when she came back she's eating such rich swill 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:12.120 align:middle line:84% she couldn't fit into her little A-frame. 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:14.370 align:middle line:84% She was a house pig but she had her own little house, 00:00:14.370 --> 00:00:15.960 align:middle line:90% and she was terribly ashamed. 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.980 align:middle line:84% And she sort of encamped outside their window-- 00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:22.530 align:middle line:84% the humans' window --for three days, and so she 00:00:22.530 --> 00:00:26.550 align:middle line:84% kind of slimmed down to get back into her house. 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:29.520 align:middle line:84% And as she said, until I could enter my maiden chamber 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:34.500 align:middle line:84% once more, but now I carried in me a fruit of my mating. 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:40.170 align:middle line:84% And the next one, her task is to instruct her piglets. 00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:43.290 align:middle line:84% These shall I house train, I swear it. 00:00:43.290 --> 00:00:46.710 align:middle line:84% They shall dwell like their mother among dexterous humans 00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:50.040 align:middle line:84% to teach them pig wisdom, she says. 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:53.610 align:middle line:84% And she said, Oh, Isis, bless thy pigs-- 00:00:53.610 --> 00:00:55.740 align:middle line:90% piglets. 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:58.630 align:middle line:84% And then, this one, I think, I'll read to you. 00:00:58.630 --> 00:01:01.350 align:middle line:90% It's called "Her Secret." 00:01:01.350 --> 00:01:06.540 align:middle line:84% In the humans' house fine things abound, 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:10.350 align:middle line:84% furniture, rugs by the hearth, bowls 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:14.700 align:middle line:84% and pitchers, freezer and fridge, closets of food, 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:21.060 align:middle line:84% baskets of apples, the musical saw on which my He-human plays 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:24.330 align:middle line:90% the songs I dream. 00:01:24.330 --> 00:01:29.700 align:middle line:84% In my neat A-frame they think there is nothing, only 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:33.240 align:middle line:90% the clean straw of my bed. 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:38.040 align:middle line:84% But under the floor I gather beautiful tins, nutshells, 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:44.050 align:middle line:84% ribbons, shining buttons, the thousand baubles a pig desires. 00:01:44.050 --> 00:01:44.910 align:middle line:90% [CHUCKLING] 00:01:44.910 --> 00:01:47.100 align:middle line:90% They are well hidden. 00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:50.670 align:middle line:84% Piglets shall find one day an inheritance 00:01:50.670 --> 00:01:55.770 align:middle line:84% of shapes, textures, mysterious substances-- 00:01:55.770 --> 00:01:57.030 align:middle line:90% Rubber! 00:01:57.030 --> 00:01:58.230 align:middle line:90% Velvet! 00:01:58.230 --> 00:01:59.460 align:middle line:90% Aluminum! 00:01:59.460 --> 00:02:01.320 align:middle line:90% Paper! 00:02:01.320 --> 00:02:05.310 align:middle line:84% Yes, I am founding, stick by stick, 00:02:05.310 --> 00:02:10.289 align:middle line:84% wrapper by wrapper, trinkets, toys-- 00:02:10.289 --> 00:02:12.089 align:middle line:90% Civilization! 00:02:12.089 --> 00:02:15.439 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:19.000 align:middle line:90%