- 1、本文档共6页,可阅读全部内容。
- 2、有哪些信誉好的足球投注网站(book118)网站文档一经付费(服务费),不意味着购买了该文档的版权,仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用,不得用于商业用途,未经授权,严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等,侵权必究。
- 3、本站所有内容均由合作方或网友上传,本站不对文档的完整性、权威性及其观点立场正确性做任何保证或承诺!文档内容仅供研究参考,付费前请自行鉴别。如您付费,意味着您自己接受本站规则且自行承担风险,本站不退款、不进行额外附加服务;查看《如何避免下载的几个坑》。如果您已付费下载过本站文档,您可以点击 这里二次下载。
- 4、如文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等,请点击“版权申诉”(推荐),也可以打举报电话:400-050-0827(电话支持时间:9:00-18:30)。
查看更多
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven
Things of the form (*text*) are footnotes in the original text.
Hes faster than a speeding bullet. Hes more powerful than a locomotive. Hes
able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Why cant he get a girl?
At the ripe old age of thirty-one (*Superman first appeared in Action Comics,
June 1938*), Kal-El (alias Superman, alias Clark Kent) is still unmarried.
Almost certainly he is still a virgin. This is a serious matter. The species
itself is in danger!
An unwed Superman is a mobile Superman. Thus it has been alleged that those who
chronicle the Man of Steels adventures are responsible for his condition. But
the cartoonists are not to blame.
Nor is Superman handicapped by psychological problems.
Granted that the poor oaf is not entirely sane. How could he be? He is an
orphan, a refugee, and an alien. His homeland no longer exists in any form, save
for gigatons upon gigatons of dangerous, prettily colored rocks.
As a child and young adult, Kal-El must have been hard put to find an adequate
father-figure. What human could control his antisocial behavior? What human
would dare try to punish him? His actual, highly social behavior during this
period indicates an inhuman self-restraint.
What wonder if Superman drifted gradually into schizophrenia? Torn between his
human and kryptonian identities, he chose to be both, keeping his split
personalities rigidly separate. A psychotic desperation is evident in his
defense of his secret identity.
But Supermans sex problems are strictly physiological, and quite real.
The purpose of this article is to point out some medical drawbacks to being a
kryptonian among human beings, and to suggest possible solutions. The kryptonian
humanoid must not be allowed to go the way of the pterodactyl and the passenger
pigeon.
I
What turns on a kryptonian?
Superman is an alien, an extraterrestrial. His humanoid frame is doubtless the
result of parallel evolution, as the
您可能关注的文档
- (外文电子版资料)L. Ron Hubbard- Fear.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (1) - Heralds Of Valdemar 05 - Exile's Valor.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (2) - The Last Herald Mage 01 - Magic's Pawn.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (2) - The Last Herald Mage 02 - Magic's Promise.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (2) - The Last Herald Mage 03 - Magic's Price.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (4) - Vows & Honor 03 - By the Sword.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (7) - Owl 01 - Owlflight.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lackey, Mercedes - Valdemar (8) - Mage Wars 02 - The White Gryphon.doc
- (外文电子版资料)Lafferty, R A - Among the Hairy Earthmen.pdf
- (外文电子版资料)Lafferty, R A - Continued on the Next Rock.pdf
文档评论(0)