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Contemporary mermaid stories are a warning about humanity's increasingly oceanic future.
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- Jessica Pressman American literary scholar
Mermaids serve as signals, in both senses of the word – as an emergency alert and as a medium for transmitting a message about humanity’s increasingly oceanic planetary future.
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