Where Do the Mermaids Stand?: Sound and Fury

Signifying what?

After all the furor over the book, I expected something rather more than this.

The Da Vinci Code - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

I was too busy being annoyed by the inaccuracies in the book to enjoy the story, and the movie doesn't sound like it's worth paying to go see. Maybe once Netflix has it...

Where do the mermaids stand?

The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by the student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor who, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon a game called "Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs." "You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are ... a giant, a wizard or a dwarf?" At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?" The pastor told her there are no mermaids, and she says, "Oh yes there are," she said. "I am a mermaid." Now this little girl knew what she was and she was not about to give up on either her identity or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. Where do the mermaids stand ... All those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and pigeonholes? "Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "and you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world." ~~Barbara Bush Wellesley College Commencement Address, 1990

Where Do the Mermaids Stand?

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Sound and Fury

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Where do the mermaids stand?

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