Well, you know I've read the Bible, so let me quote the Bible now!
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
This is from 1 Corinthians 13, and Paul the apostle is talking about how faith, hope and love are the three things that let a person into the Kingdom of Heaven. He also praises love as the greatest of these three 'keys to Heaven'. But let's imagine that Paul was talking about love between a man and a woman here on Earth. Note the significance that this statement takes on:
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Well, Clark is still being childish, isn't he? He hasn't been able to give up his Lana fantasy - and it
is a fantasy. How often does a boy end up happily married ever after to the girl he fell in love with when he was six? I'm not saying that it has never happened, but it must be a rare occurrence indeed.
Now let's look at this:
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
Clark, you keep prophesying to yourself and to Lois too about how you will leave her in five years. Well, you only know in part, Buster.
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears
Well, here is where Clark remains stubbornly knowledge- and sight-challenged. Perfection, at least the kind of perfection that comes along on this Earth, has already come to him in the shape of Lois. But he desperately hangs on to the dream of the imperfect, Lana.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror
That is what Clark does! He is seeing Lois and Lana as if he saw their reflections in a fun house mirror:
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The distorting mirror makes Lana look perfect, but Lois comes out looking wrong, precisely because she isn't Lana.
then we shall see face to face.
Clark is unable to really
see when he is looking at Lois and Lana face to face. He can only see their funhouse reflections.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
But one part of Clark already knows in full, and that is his heart. But Clark won't listen to his heart.
Listen to your heart Clark is a very strong-willed young man, very principled. His mind keeps insisting that he is in love with Lana, and he keeps wallowing because he believes it. But sometimes his mind is stilled, and his heart can see clearly. And that is when he loves Lois so much.
Apparently, she'd decided that this was the night to do the whole 'we're married' pajama thing. In that second, I noted that she was wearing a black satin gown that fell to nearly the floor and that she had a matching robe wrapped around her. She was reaching for her bathrobe and she put that on as well. She was probably as uncomfortable with it as I was, but it was necessary.
Was it possible that she was expecting some reaction? After all I'd told her that it was possible that we'd... I made myself think it. Make love someday.
Clark's mind is unimpressed with Lois's 'married pajamas'. But his heart is not.
I headed towards the bathroom to get ready for bed.
The young husband, so in love with his wife, has just seen her in a stunning new nightie. He goes to the bathroom to take a shower. And then we know what must follow next.
It made sense they would think that Lois and I would have our own... celebration later, an... initiation of sorts for our new room.
Clark even knows that others expect thim to make love to Lois on this particular night.
Lana.
I hadn't let myself think about her like that in a long time, but a sudden vision of her in front of a fireplace came to me. She wasn't wearing anything then as I looked down at her. I closed my eyes and tried to will the image away. When I opened them again, instead of Lana in front of the fire, it was Lois lying there with me.
Clark has thought of Lana, imagining her before a fireplace, all naked. And then he opens his eyes and sees Lois.
But something happens inside him when he is longing for Lana and looking at Lois. His mind doesn't know that it is Lois he really longs for, but his heart knows it.
And as for what almost happened at the end of part 57, I feel you just gave us a glimpse of what really happened that night in the cabin, Carol. Clark's heart saw Lois lying naked next to him after having saved his life. His heart overflowed not only with gratitude, but also with love and with a soft, gentle, but growing desire. And he kissed her sweetly, unaware of what he was really doing, just as he was unaware of what he was really doing now in part 57, even though he wasn't suffering from hypothermia. And then as now, Lois's love for Clark made her respond to him.
Please make the lunkhead see face to face soon and know fully!
Ann
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