Saturday, 9 June 2018

Not A Telephone Booth

In an earlier post, Senlac, I wrote:

"On a page that I will find when rereading, Havig remarks that a cubicle in a public toilet is a more discrete place than Clark Kent's telephone booth for a time traveler to disappear in."

I made the same remark in different words in Poul Anderson On Comics.

What Poul Anderson in fact wrote was:

"'Know where the best place usually is for unnoticed chronokinesis in a modern city? Not Superman's telephone booth. A public lavatory stall. Real romantic, huh?'"
-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, 1973), X, p. 105.

In the first Superman film starring Christopher Reeve, Clark found that a public telephone booth was too small and instead used a revolving door at superspeed.

See also Superman In Public Consciousness And Popular Culture.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Ha! Amusing, that mutant time travelers discovered that the most convenient locations for them to do time traveling are public lavatory stalls. With the doors closed, I assume!

Sean