tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-653236115930603107.post7764864199783963612..comments2018-08-08T10:30:10.872-07:00Comments on Nerd-Girls, Romantics, and Time-Travelers: Are Mermaids the New Vampires?Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04726404742267116995noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-653236115930603107.post-48236926893701125012011-07-20T21:32:01.645-07:002011-07-20T21:32:01.645-07:00Very Japaneseque in approach: a creature of lore (...Very Japaneseque in approach: a creature of lore (usually a woman) cohabitating with a human man (usually ending in dire results). Nice to see it applied to a Western vision. Men, haunted, not by any mermaid, but by a ghost mermaid. Now that's pretty original.Stuart Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15793206641026875552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-653236115930603107.post-43626224825886551292011-07-20T06:41:16.195-07:002011-07-20T06:41:16.195-07:00The mermaid of which you so evocatively seems to m...The mermaid of which you so evocatively seems to me much like the pure domesticated wolf, whose picture is twisted in our tales of moon-bound werewolves. Both bear only a slight resemblance to their legends: she a wild & exotic emblem of the fickleness of the sea, he a reminder of our subordination to needs and cycles of nature. For they both surpass our imaginings, she as you so eloquently described and he, well, his kind are men who, glimpsed in fading light, can be seen for what they are: confident, modern, canis sapiens, attractive to women but ever apart, thick-shouldered, paradoxically fine but ambivalent of visage, translators between species, and who rarely, ever so rarely, find a human females with whom they can share their secret mastery of both species, the secret that it is they who bred into us not our violence but our gregariousness, and their secret sorrow, the price they paid, the price of seeing their lesser brethren become our first experiment in domestication.dkeppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08167446811540892602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-653236115930603107.post-90911051167350224612011-07-19T22:48:18.261-07:002011-07-19T22:48:18.261-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.dkeppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08167446811540892602noreply@blogger.com