VLVL2 (9): Superman

Mon Nov 3 21:30:16 CST 2003

133.30  "Superman would change back into Clark Kent," she had once confided to Frenesi, "don't underestimate it.  Workin' at the Daily Planet was the Man o' Steel's Hawaiian vacation, his Saturday night in town, his marijuana and opium smoke, and oh what I wouldn't give. . . ."

[...] "Just like Clark Kent, we are supermen: unconquerable in our imaginations - Lords of all we survey. And superman is a God.

"And why is Superman so interested in Clark Kent's home town of Metropolis? For the same reason that in wars both sides often pray to the same god. Superman is a patriot! Our god is there for us to control. God becomes meaningless if he is not connected with our well-being - so obviously god lives in our home town. Superman is engaged in a black-and-white fight between good and evil. That's easy! We're the good guys and the guys we're shooting at are the bad guys!" [...]

from a Superman and Spirituality website:
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/thoughts/superman.htm

[...] "To the readers of the Daily Planet, the name of Clark Kent signed over a story means integrity and honesty.  His newspaper reporting on crime has won him countless awards. 

"In addition to wearing ordinary street clothes and slightly altering his facial appearance with eye-glasses to conceal the fact that he is secretly Superman, Clark Kent exhibits qualities of personality far removed from the ones he displays as Superman.  The chronicles repeatedly describe Clark Kent as meek, mild-mannered, sickly, weak, submissive, and even spineless. 

"Clark Kent is afraid of dogs, afraid of heights, and willing to let almost anyone push him around. 

"In his own words, "My meek behavior is the perfect disguise for my real identity as Superman!""

http://theages.superman.ws/Encyclopaedia/clark.php 

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