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So, you're SUPERMAN, right? You've got your own secret hideway located in the Arctic. Being the strongest man in the universe, you could have the entrance hidden by a huge boulder which you could easily move out of the way whenever the occasion requires. Nothing would look out of the ordinary, and nobody would even think to guess that you had a private fortress to which you retreat for a little solitude from time to time.
So what do you do? You build a bloody huge gold-coloured door in the side of a mountain which nobody can miss, then put a keyhole slap-bang in the middle of it which looks almost big enough to drive a Mini-Cooper through. The key, supposedly disguised as an aeroplane marker (and which points straight to the door), is too large and heavy for anyone but superbeings to lift, but is utterly redundant because, with the aid of an extending ladder or a grappling hook to reach it, anyone can walk straight through the big-as-a- tunnel keyhole*.
Superman, you really can be as thick as a plank at times, don't you think?
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*And I know that all sorts of retroactive explanations were later devised to explain (away) why it isn't quite as simple as that, but the original idea as it stood was plainly ridiculous.
But somehow still it's that hapless naive lack of logic which laces many of these stories with their essential charm. Go figure!
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Yup! It's a paradox, RJ.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't matter if anyone discovered it, as no-one would ever recognize h once he slips those glasses on!
ReplyDeleteHow could I have forgotten his glasses?
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