Fw: TRTR, Pt 2, C 2 "does there exist such a thing as mermaids, sar?"

[Mark Kohut]

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Redo..do

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The things i learn instead of having a life: 
 
God-haunted Emily Dickinson uses the phrase "mermaids in the basement"...
 
here, from Google Books is some mini-encyclopedic stuff on mermaids 
in literature....largely "a European phenomenon"    
 
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

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:30 PM
Subject: TRTR, Pt 2, C 2 "does there exist such a thing as mermaids, sar?"


I have heard the mermaids calling each to each. ----Eliot
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

p. 346 Fuller.....explores the 'dialects' of religious belief.......

simple man of faith...dissed and 'refuted' by the awful Recktall.......
but in Fuller's arguments....."have you seen an octopus"...............
There has to be mahn mermaids............

I think we see Gaddis's non-belief......True?

And religious belief/dogma as a Gilbert & Sullivan light opera.......