I did read Charlotte’s Web. The whole story is a lesson in how beauty is created by language. Wilbur doesn’t become beautiful because he changes, but because someone clever enough decided to write the right words above him. That’s what beauty usually is something we agree to see, not something that exists on its own.

And Miss Piggy understood that better than anyone. She didn’t have beauty, she performed it. She made desire itself her act.

So yes, I read both. Maybe that’s exactly why I don’t mistake the show for the substance.