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1. Circe

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   The Nature of the Pig Transformation
   Scholarly consensus generally holds that the pigs were not literal swine, but rather an altered state of profound apathy. Circe’s primary magic, it is argued, is the imposition of willful psychological inertia. When mortals consume her brew, they do not sprout snouts; rather, they lose the internal cognitive friction necessary for ambition, accepting a state of bovine contentment. The description as swine is merely the poetic rendering of this deep psychological regression, suggesting that mortals, when unburdened by the striving associated with t…