Comments on: What the magician’s assistant said to the lighthousekeeper about mermaids http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=3203 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Trish http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=3203&cpage=1#comment-9843 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:48 +0000 http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=3203#comment-9843 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-i-succumbed-to-the-black-mermaid-of-kensington-1127304.html

]]> By: Jann http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=3203&cpage=1#comment-9807 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:25:47 +0000 http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=3203#comment-9807 I don’t know if it’s such a good idea for mermaids to be out playing in storms, especially if they’re, ahem, not properly covered. This might pose a distraction for men, especially men who had been at sea for a long time, and just at a time when they ought not be distracted, I mean, what with the storm and all, it would require all their attention, as one might imagine, merely to keep the boat afloat. And it seems that nobody knows exactly why the SS Edmund Fitzgerald went down on November 10, 1975, in 530 feet of water on Lake Superior, just 17 miles north of Whitefish Bay, with the loss of the entire crew of 29, and 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets. Gordon Lightfoot says:

“The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
If they’d put fifteen more miles behind her.”

There was a storm with 35 foot waves, and the boat was listing, but they went down without so much as a distress call. Does anybody really know enough to even make a reasonable guess as to why they didn’t make Whitefish Bay?

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