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MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond and a standard bearer forMermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged. The merman was water personified. The imposing water gods could be wheedled, cozened, implored, butin the