I have no words. November 10, 2007
Me: (pointing to a picture of The Beatles in The New Yorker) Hey, Dina, look, it’s The Beatles.
Dina: Why aren’t they mermaids?
Me: Why would you think they’d be mermaids?
Dina: You know, cuz when they sing; they’re, like, pure, and, like, energy…
Me: And you think that would translate to them being mermaids?
Dina; (slightly sheepishly, due to the realization that these criteria do not, although they should, make people mermaids) Yeah…
Epilogue: When fact checking w/ Dina before posting this story, she claimed that what she said was that they were “elastic energy”. I think she added that just now, but it’s a good revision. I’ll leave it to you to decide which version you disseminate to the people in your life who are not AF readers, but eager await the updates that you provide to them.
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