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Mermaids in Paradise Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
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“Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.”
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“We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization’s technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other’s guts.”
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“You don’t see a fish in a chair often.”
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tags: chair, fish
“ "One thing. I've got experience with explosives. Another thing. I've got explosives.”
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“We need people like you, Dobson,” said Gina. “In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.”
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“Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term,” explained the biologist.”
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“We don’t want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.”
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“One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.”
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“Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn’t look like Ariel.”
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“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”
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tags: gun, pen, rpg
Freudian Slip: When You Mean One Thing And Say Your Mother.
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“We all have our skill sets, right?”
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“To hear Chip talk you’d think every Nebraskan male knows how to put a horseshoe on a mule. They know how to bring forth grain from dirt, or what a combine harvester is. They get what happens to that brought-forth grain, the steps before the Cheerios. The women knit long underwear and are adept at fruit canning.”
Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise