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Is everybody happy now? Queenie, is this what you had in mind?

Next Part hopefully Wednesday.

Hello HappyGirl,

I have followed your story since the first parts and it's amazing ! I love it !
This Clark is different but I like the way he acts and how he feels about his character "writer Clark Kent" and the superhero Superman ! He has some difficulties to become again, just Clark ! He is more self-confident but at the same time, he has some insecurities because of his origins.
The relationship which has begun between Lois & "Caleb" is fascinating !

I am not good to write feedbacks, so more clearly, I am eager to read the next parts !
Thank you for this original "pilot".

Have a nice week.

Friendly, Annalina.

Hi,

This part is certainly lovely.

You certainly caught me out at the beginning of this part. I too thought that Lois had discovered his other identity. Well done!

I understand what Clark/Superman is meaning by not telling Lois his name, and very glad that Lois also understands.

I hope he doesn't keep her in the dark too long, though. Somehow I feel Lois might lose patience.

Of course, she might discover who he really is by herself. I hope she believes in the person she has been privileged to meet and not his reputation.

But I'm enjoying this story and very happy to go where you lead us.

Yours Jenni

Well, I can certainly handle a MWF posting schedule.

LOL, I knew you wouldn't let her figure out his real name that easily. I've clearly been reading and writing fanfic too long that I saw that one coming. How ironic that we could be turning Lois's argument with Dan against her in this story, LOL. Depending on how much time he's spending as Superman vs how much time Clark Kent is putting in on his current book tour, there will eventually be a big part of his life that he's keeping from her. Hopefully his drive to be honest will help him find his way through that quagmire.

And I like that Lois has named him yet again in this story. Ten bucks says that "Caleb Knight" will end up as the name of the hero in his next book ... only this time, definitely as a good guy!

Nicely done all around, HG. I'm eagerly waiting for Wednesday for more of this story.

Ooh, great part, we got some smoochies - yay!!

The slant you have put on L&C in this fic is really, really clever. I know I've said this before, but I keep noticing different aspects to it.

On the face of it, because of L&C and the beauty of the canon 'love triangle for two', I wouldn't expect to like a story where Lois falls for Superman and he reciprocates. Where your fic is so clever is that this is ok, because although he is Superman, you've found a way for Lois to prove she sees more of him than just that. She is now helping him to find a normal alter ego - love it!!

Of course, Caleb Knight (clever name!) is Clark Kent really, but 'Clark Kent' isn't the real Clark Kent, Caleb Knight is!! - that kind of makes sense, I think. Only in the context of this fic!

Now Clark (or Caleb) has been straight with Lois that he has another name/identity, so she can't be mad when she finds out it's Clark Kent now can she?!! He's trying hard not to lie.

And that sums up the basis of L&C. Only part-epiphany Lois! So close yet so far.



This is the important part, that she gave it enough thought, gave him enough thought, rather than just taking the celebrity/godlike personna at face value.



Not Clark Kent, heaven forbid!! They'd never believe it!

Ooh, so that's where he got the 'heads up' about Lex before he came to town. He needs to let on to Lois, but I guess he can't at the moment.

Hee, hee! 'Superman, the night in shining spandex' - could catch on!

That's the only trouble, if he gets confused and forgets his name!!



Looking forward to the next part of Lois & Caleb/Clark: the New Adventures of Superman!

Em

Hap, this was absolutely EXQUISITE!!!


The kissing...so steamy...! (Dangit, I promised myself I'd use more actual *words* this time, but I can't seem to find very many.)

Anyway, this was fantastic!

This. I like this.

Hap, this is, like, everything a Lois/Superman fic should be! She gets the whole package, no lies. She doesn't know his name (ah the mystique!), but she knows who he is and what he can do. This...I squeed muchly over this part.

And the kissing...did I mention the kissing?

And Hubba-Wha, did they--? are they--? on the first--? Nah, must be my naughty imagination.
(I will not demand an nfic version...I will not demand an nfic version...I will not demand an nfic version....)

Hap, thank you so much for writing this!!

Can I have more now?

What a fabulous part! I'm just thinking that Clark better not encounter her in his "Clark Kent" persona anymore if Lois really has taken this looking-beyond-the-surface stuff to heart.

Can't wait for Wednesday!

Amber

She likes it! I'm so glad. We've worked hard to get these two together, now we're going to have some fun with them. And, no, they didn't...not on the first...get your mind out of the gutter, young lady!

Amber, Yeah, Clark Kent had better not let Lois anywhere near him until he's ready to come clean. Even with her usual facial recognition deficiency, that might be a bridge too far.

Part 10 coming up.

A random thought to start with: I it just my imagination, or do Clark Kent novels NOT have the traditional author's picture somewhere on cover? Otherwise, they would a) cause undercover troubles and b) Lois, sitting there, looking at a Clark Kent picture just before Superman shows up

On with FDK...

/wipes brow/



Aww, that's okay, Happy. It was pretty interesting

Imagine a cartoon character here, holding a big, flashing neon sigh, reading Clark Kent, right over his head.

*g* And the writer side might be pretty interesting, too. Especially, since she's starting to become a Clark Kent buff



Awww and

Interesting. Wonder how long it's going to take for Lois to think of them in the same thought.

What about Jerome? Or John Clark?

Right.

Caleb? Interesting choice. I think that's the time (and the third fiction) I heard it used.

Sounds innocent enough. Just some tonsil hockey. Nothing to see. Move along.

Michael

If you're thinking Kal-El (and we are even if they aren't because they haven't even heard that name yet), then the natural alternatives are Calvin or Caleb. Caleb is actually a popular name in some American circles these days. Biblical names for boys are making a comeback.

BTW, I knew someone who used to work summers waiting tables at a church-owned campground. She said you could always tell the week that the missionaries had their conference because the moms would yell to call the kids for dinner: Rachel! Sarah! Rebecca! Abigail! Nehemiah! Micah! Daniel! You get the idea.

For the unitiated, Caleb and Joshua were the only two of their generation who were allowed to enter the promised land. The Isrealites had to wander around the wilderness for forty years until everyone else over the age of twenty (at the beginning=sixty at the end) died out. And, just for the record, whereas Joshua is the Hebrew form of Jesus (which is the Greek form) and means The LORD Saves, Caleb means....wait for it.....Dog.

P.S. And while we're on the subject of Biblical names, yours (which is also mine, Michelle) means Who Is Like God? It's a rhetorical question.

And yes, Clark's picture is on the book jacket, and all over the place, but, since this is the same world in which no one connects Superman with half of The Hottest Team in Town, I maintain that the entire population of this world suffers from some kind of facial recognition deficiency.

"Facial recognition deficiency" - /me falls over laughing/ - great terminology!

By the way, do you think you could work that term into the fic somehow?

I don't know, Iolanthe, wouldn't that be breaking the fourth wall? I mean, if they all suffer from it, then they don't realize that people in *other* universes can actually recognize people even with different clothes and hairstyles. :rolleyes:

You know, that's a really good comment. I was laughing about the whole thing, and then you said that, and I was like, "You know, Happy's got a point there!"

Now I'm into deep (as deep as I can get, because as I've said before, deep down I'm shallow) philosophizing about what is perception and what is reality, and is the image of a thing the same as the thing itself, and are there true forms of objects like the Plato's Cave analogy and what we have here on Earth is only a shadow of the true, ideal form....and I'm babbling. It's late at night and I've got to go to bed.

But I won't be able to sleep because I'm thinking about your comment.

Good point on Kal-El/Caleb. And interesting trivia.

On a different note: The problem with facial recognition is an actual medical condition: Prosopagnosia
Michael

And there's an entire universe of people suffering from it!

I was sort of thinking the same thing because I had read the book by Oliver Sacks (neurologist.) I forget which book of his it was that had the prosopoagnosia in it. I think it was "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat".

He had another section about patients who had an injury to the part of the brain where visual information is processed. That part was destroyed. So:
1) the people couldn't see anymore (the eyes worked fine, but the connection was broken);
2) the people lost all memory of seeing and all memories that were visual in nature
3) the patients were unable to actually conceive of the idea of seeing.

So when you said that the people in that universe all had a facial recognition deficiency, and they didn't realize it, I was thinking it was something like the above. They are incapable of even imagining that they have a facial recognition deficiency.

I know I'm *really* behind on all my reading, but I've been wanting to catch up with this story since it first appeared.

Anyway, over two nights, I've got to Part 9 and wanted to tell you that I'm reading (albeit belatedly) and really enjoying it.

There were some LOL bits - too many in 9 parts to quote, but I particularly loved your take on the 'don't fall for me,' line. Wonderful!

Having Lana as a friend and support is a change that works really well. Marrying her off is a masterstroke - now she can't possibly be competition for Lois.

Both Lois and Clark/Superman/Caleb are in character, yet you've managed to draw out other little nuances that deepen them as characters.

I will definitely keep reading, but I quite enjoy taking my time as it gives me a chance to think about the story between parts.

Corrina.

Corrina!

I'm so glad you're along for the ride. It's good to hear that the story works in large chunks. Since I write and post it in parts, I sometimes worry that the parts will be disjointed. We want it to meld together into a coherent whole as well as having each part be enjoyable on its own.

I have a lot of respect (which I try not to let devolve into envy ) for your writing talent, so I'll be looking for your feedback.

I had suspected her epiphany wouldn't be *the* epiphany, but part of my had hoped to be proven wrong.

And just how is she supposed to do that? Lean out the window and yell, "Help, Superman! I need pasta!"?

Joy,
Lynn

Hi Lynn!

Help, Superman! I need pasta!

You crack me up.