Well, seeing that I just lost my Pulitzer membership and I can only get it back by posting a lot of new stuff, why not add a new post instead of editing my old one?
Because I was thinking of the ending of this chapter. Lois and Clark, eh, Lois and
Superman, fall asleep on Lois's new couch together while watching
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Which is about a man who leads a double life, who is an amazing hero, but who in "real life" is this silly fop who just irritates his wife. Who doesn't know about her husband's double life... hmmm... wait a minute.
Lois has two men in her life... and one of them, the non-heroic one, is so completely irritating. But he is strange, too... you can't figure him out... wait... wait... there is a momentous truth to be found here someplace, isn't there? Like, say in Lois's dream? About the Scarlet Pimpernel? Who wears a scarlet cape - I didn't know that! - but also blue spandex for some reason.
Imagine Lois slowly waking up from such a dream, where she is only half-awake, and suddenly looking straight into the totally "innocent" and "open" face of Kal-El, sleeping next to her. Suppose the movie, right then, shows how the Scarlet Pimpernel's wife suddenly finds out about her husband's identity....
How about it, Rachel? Huh? Huh?
Ann (who just hit 1881 posts - only 119 left to go for a Pulitzer)
