Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Read Professor Irwin Corey's acceptance speech for Pynchon's 1974 National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow.
Also, have a look at Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow.
Pigs
"manure from a trio of prize Wessex Saddleback sows quartered there by Throsp's successor" 5
"Slothrop moves among the [...] pigs" 70
Gloucestershire Old Spots, 82
"ic heb u liever dan ên everswîn, al waert van finen goude ghewracht" (English: I love you more than a wild boar / even if it were made of fine gold) 108
"love incommensurate with gold, golden calf, even in this case golden swine" 108
"But by the middle of the 17th century there were no more pigs of gold" 108
"The Dutch pigs took care of eggs and younger birds." 108
"The place was too remote for any foraging pig to've found." 109
"vast deals to be made on the order of the old woman's arrangement for getting her pig home over the stile" 114
"scuffling like piglets on a sow for position" 123
"the entire film runs backward: faired skin back to sheet steel back to pigs to white incandescence to ore, to Earth." 139
Katje: "'Slothrop, you pig.'' 'Oink, oink, oink,' sez Slothrop cheerfully" 206
"Geli in her white dress, hair brushed back over her ears into pigtails" 333
"Just piggin' on peyote " 369
"Frieda the pig hunts a new place to nestle and snooze out of the wind." 398
"Swinemünde" 294
"they both sit there just pigging on those spuds" 434
"a row of pig arks" 462
"young Shirley Temple--each straining babypig inflection" 466
"the widening funnel of the Swine" 497
"the two hogtied officers" 513
"It'll turn you into swine,/If you ever get a taste of DOPER'S GREED" 534
"boobish as young Porky Pig" 545
"[William Slothrop] and his son John got a pig operation going--used to drive hogs right back down the great escarpment, back over the long pike to Boston, drive them just like sheep or cows. By the time they got to market those hogs were so skinny it was hardly worth it, but William wasn't really in it so much for the money as just for the trip itself. He enjoyed the road [...] --and most of all just being with those pigs. They were good company. Despite the folklore and the injunctions in his own Bible, William came to love their nobility and personal freedom, their gift for finding comfort in the mud on a hot day--pigs out on the road, in company together, were everything Boston wasn't, and you can imagine what the end of the journey, the weighing, slaughter and dreary pigless return back up into the hills must've been like for William." 555
"William must've been waiting for the one pig that wouldn't die, that would validate all the ones who'd had to, all his Gadarene swine who'd rushed into extinction like lemmings, possessed not by demons but by trust for men, which the men kept betraying...possessed by innocence they couldn't lose...by faith in William as another variety of pig, at home with the Earth, sharing the same gift of life...." 555
"the snuffling good-nights of a hundred pigs among the new stars and long grass" 556
"Plechazunga, the Pig-Hero" 567
"Thor, the thunder god, who sent down the giant pig" 568
"a German Expressionist pig" 568
"a last snapshot of a trudging pig in motley, merging with the stars and woodpiles" 573
"He is looking here into the snout of another pig, very fat and pink pig. She grunts and smiles amiably, blinking long eyelashes. 'Wait. How about this?' He puts on the pig mask. She stares for a minute, then moves up to Slothrop and kisses him, snout-to-snout. " 573
"A pig is a jolly companion,
Boar, sow, barrow, or gilt--
A pig is a pal, who'll boost your morale,
Though mountains may topple and tilt.
When they've blackballed, bamboozled, and burned you,
When they've turned on you, Tory and Whig,
Though you may be thrown over by Tabby or Rover,
You'll never go wrong with a pig, a pig,
You'll never go wrong with a pig!" 575
"the pig a wandering eastern magus" 575
"Slothrop, in his pig suit, thinks that Pökler thinks that he, Slothrop, has been fooling around with Frieda the Pig, and that there is about to be a shotgun, or Luger, wedding here--in fact the phrase unto thee I pledge my trough has just arrived in his brain" 576
"the Badass and its division, four haze-gray piglets" 597
"no MP would bother an innocent funseeking pig" 607
"a Porky Pig tattoo on his stomach" 638
"hogsheads of IG Farben pink and blue Baby Dye" 647
"piggin' on the watermelon down to the rind" 678
"Yankee pig" 683
"a baby as fat as a suckling pig" 686
"managing to look pigtailed and wistful" 690
"The Gross Suckling. Swaying full-color picture of a loathsomely fat drooling infant. In one puddinglike fist the Gross Suckling clutches a dripping hamhock (sorry pigs, nothing personal)" 707
"André Omnopon, of the feathery Rilke mustaches and Porky Pig tattoo on stomach (which is becoming the 'hep' thing lately: even back in the Zone of the Interior the American subdebs all think it's swoony)" 711
"Thousands of guinea pigs [...] were experimentally blasted to death here" 729
Seaman Bodine has the nickname "Pig" in V.
