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A Street In The Mist
Lets talk mediocre superheroes. I was going to write about Jules Verne and his love story Le Rayon Vert aka The Green Ray. I was going to expand pretentiously on the delightful Eric Rohmer movie of the same name, but dear people, this ray is definitely rouge not vert. This is more of a flash than a ray.
So yeah, lets talk about The Flash; a man who awakens from a coma, after one of those particle accelerator explosions, and then finds that he has the power of super-speed. He’s not my favourite superhero. It seems like most folks would do better to slow down and pay attention to the world. This, by the way, could easily be a picture of the Flash. He’s out for an evening run, along a street in the mist, looking for clues into the mysterious death of his mother, trying to vindicate his dad. There he is zooming past as the camera clicks.
Hidden in the mist, standing under a tree, is perhaps an unknown superhero. Lets call them the Misty Monk; just standing, thinking, solving problems. Sadly neither Marvel or D.C. seems likely to add the Misty Monk to their offerings. It doesn’t matter. The Misty Monk is also battling injustice and quietly making the world a better place, only really very slowly.
Right now I’m sitting in an early morning coffee shop. I have had my special espresso, and I am waiting patiently for a lull in customers so the barista will make me a hot chocolate. Outside the sky is getting lighter, it is snowing. A middle aged couple are holding hands on the sidewalk, and they are waiting patently for a lull in the commuter traffic so that they can cross the road. Then suddenly they embrace. Cars and bicycles flash past and they stand hugging contentedly. I look back at this photograph and see both speed and patience. Then the coffee-man makes me my hot chocolate, goes outside to have a cigarette and raises his hands to the snow.
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