The one where I ramble about Mermaids

Because seeing PotC 4 this past Friday (meaning opening day) has refreshed my love for mermaids (Not Ariel, *blergh*) and has inspired me to reread the "Swimming with the Fishes" trilogy by MaryJanice Davidson (Ah there such a shortage of decent mermaid romance books (I didn't like Splash! I just didn't.)

I hated that Ariel had to give up her voice to get her man, I don't care if that's what happed in the original HCA fairy tale I still don't like it. BTW She didn't get her man in the fairy tale. But I suppose I like the HCA story better than the Disney version. Yeah go figure I'm the one who like Cinderella in any incarnation I can get my hands on. Except the Gregory Maguire book, I forget the name but it had stepsister in the title. I am totally open to his Snow White story from the stepmother POV though. I've just yet to buy it *is lazy*


But yeah Fred is my preferred mermaid of choice.

D'oh!

What I posted for initially! Mermaid quotes!




O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:
Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote;
Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
And as a bed I'll take them and there lie.

--William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors

In the blue depth of waters,
Where the wave hath no strife,
Where the wind is a stranger,
And the sea-snake hath life,
Where the Mermaid is decking
Her green hair with shells;
Like the storm on the surface
Came the sound of thy spells.

--Lord Byron, "Manfred"


At sea once more we had to pass the Sirens, whose
sweet singing lures sailors to their doom. I had
stopped up the ears of my crew with wax, and I alone
listened while lashed to the mast, powerless to steer
toward shipwreck.

--Homer, The Odyssey

Them sirens loved him up and turned him into a
horny toad!

--O, Brother, Where Art Thou?