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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">God-haunted Emily Dickinson uses the phrase "mermaids in the basement"...</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">here, from Google Books is some mini-encyclopedic stuff on mermaids </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">in literature....largely "a European phenomenon" </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><A href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-gLBOIhjsPQC&pg=PA286&dq=the+mermaids+singing&hl=en&ei=LF8rTtTDBcnV0QHfscmACw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=the%20mermaids%20singing&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=-gLBOIhjsPQC&pg=PA286&dq=the+mermaids+singing&hl=en&ei=LF8rTtTDBcnV0QHfscmACw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=the%20mermaids%20singing&f=false</A><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV id=yiv456620923yui_3_2_0_5_130838184748837>I have heard the mermaids calling each to each. ----Eliot</DIV>
<DIV>Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock</DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv456620923yui_3_2_0_5_1308381847488107>p. 346 Fuller.....explores the 'dialects' of religious belief.......</DIV>
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<DIV>simple man of faith...dissed and 'refuted' by the awful Recktall.......</DIV>
<DIV>but in Fuller's arguments....."have you seen an octopus"...............</DIV>
<DIV>There has to be mahn mermaids............</DIV>
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<DIV>I think we see Gaddis's non-belief......True?</DIV>
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<DIV>And religious belief/<VAR id=yiv456620923yui-ie-cursor></VAR>dogma as a Gilbert & Sullivan light opera.......</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>