The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

James Wynn · 07 Jul 2010, 19:49 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:49:37 -0500
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
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>>>> Does it deciding that Kent is Superman change the story in any way? I
>>>> mean, Superman still has to rescue Lois, right?
>>> If Superman were not Clark, where would he have met Lois? Ok, she's a
>>> journalist and he's a public figure. If Superman were someone else 
>>> other
>>> than Clark, wouldn't he have other singificant people in his alternate
>>> life whom we know zilch about? Among whom probably some love interest.
>>> Kent being Superman doesn't change the story because in the sorty 
>>> that's
>>> precisely who Kent is. Kent not being Superman would certainly call 
>>> for a
>>> quite different story.
I'm just sayin'. Imagine if Wolfe had written Superman. There's no way 
we'd know for certain Kent and Superman were the same guy. If Wolfe had 
written Murder On the Orient Express, there would be no Hercule Poirot. 
It would have consisted of first person stories from 12 seemingly random 
passengers and the conductor who found the body. The reader would have 
been expected to play the role of Poirot.

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