She had this wonderful, matriarchal, magisterial way of cherishing each of her perceived inferiors as a Child That Would Never Grow Up. That way, she could play mother, without the threatful implication encroaching that these little people might someday grow up to be *just like her*, equals.

More for urban mermaid:


loan sharks

Did I ever tell you about the time (king neptune, sea) [[ to the cowfish, who was somewhat bovine and rustic in appearance... [the sea pastoral - vs urban environment]
The cowfish was sad, but accepted = when she leaves, his wife would be pleased - jealous of his attentions to the beautiful mermaid - said real women had curves, never supposing it best that curves looked better when they were not, like hers, all convex (concave)

In her negotiations with the crown of thorn starfish, mermaid had managed to calculate...

So when she washed up on an obscure beach near palm cove... [Sydney exec conference - first guy who saw her whipped out his iphone rang 000 - thought having heart attack, rushed off - the 2nd, the 3rd all screamed panicked ran... Happily, the first guy came back from hospital, false alarm, armed with new mental strength and a plan... He a hypochondriac, hallucinating. Thought saw mermaid in youth?]
[The guy who gets her used to swim we later learn, but feet too small to keep up at prof level - big pool at his posh place]
She keeps asking special shampoo because ppl at JW Walker don't like the algae/seaweed smell - she smells like the bins out back of a sushi shop.

He could hardly carry her because he was not a big guy and complete with her well-muscled tail, scales and a hefty tailfin she weighed in at an uncool 93kg.

Her shopping list:
Seaweed (fresh)
Seaweed (dried)
Sushi
Caviar
[[he starts sending lots Ashfield for the range of asian groceries, Chinese supermarket... Expensive taste for abalone!]

Her love of numbers.
Anyway, maybe if I get my nose in business there (ashore), I can get us some attention - some help! (not well liked by other mermaids, not even her brothers and sisters... hoarded shells as a child; tried to institute standardised shell currency versus current casual barter system...]]

He hyponchondriac... She describes coral, millions of tiny organisms - he, a being composed of millions of tiny symptoms...
(gave up swim because busy at work, and that is when the hypochondria set in ... he "felt" things, something "wrong" - she picks it's the work that was wrong.
He webbed toes, perhaps?

She: "At sea we don't tend to get married," she told him... "We sort of just do what comes naturally..."
He: "And have you done... what comes naturally... much?" he asked, nervous.
"How would I know!?" she exclaimed, "I'm a fish, you know? I've only got a 3-second memory for these things." She watched his face a long moment, then burst out laughing: "Just kidding!"

Her name; Jingilli? Jingilly?

for urban mermaid:

way with numbers

swimming pool

blue green algae hair - antidandruff shampoo?

petwash mobile to work

disability pension qualifies




against the garish farce, her unfazed face, unsmiling, tight, blotched with rage.
The open bill lay on the table.
A fight to the death with debt. Fighting debt with debt.
Envy the green-lipped vase.
A docked dog.

a will for Nothingness, a will opposed to life, a repudiation of the most fundamental conditions of life, but it is and remains a will !—and to say at the end that which I said at the beginning—man will wish Nothingness rather than not will anything at all .

subterfugit

simmering, shimmering




shit glitter

the misleading errors of language (and the fundamental fallacies of reason which have become petrified therein)


= nietzsche