The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

António Pedro Marques · 07 Jul 2010, 21:11 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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James Wynn wrote (07-07-2010 20:49):
>>>>> 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.

Dunno. Wolfe wrote the March B Street stories. And Cherry Jubilee.

But *if* Wolfe had written Superman and the etxt didn't show Superman and
Clark were the same guy, our speculation that they might be *would* lead to
a richer reading. We would postulate they were the same guy because that
would take the story to a whole new level, not because of some esoteric
motivation for weaving the alter ego theme into it.

Whereas no one has yet explained just what the
considering-that-some-characters-in-the-BNS-are-Inire brings to the table.
Lee points to it enlightening Inire's nature and motivations, but I find
that sketchy. Could your camp do some more sketching, perhaps?

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