Depressed by seeing a not-that-great movie that everyone assured me was a Great Movie, a Pow! Wowie Zowie! Movie, I avenge myself by re-reading Charles Yu\u2019s short story \u201cThird Class Superhero.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story begins as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201cGot a letter today and guess what: still not a superhero.<\/p>\n
\u2018Dear Applicant,\u2019 [not a good sign] \u2018the number of qualified candidates this year blah blah far exceeded the number of available blah.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI scan the list of people who did make it.\u00a0 A lot of them graduated with me.\u00a0 It\u2019s the usual assortment of the strong and beautiful.\u00a0 About half are fireball shooters.\u00a0 A few are ice makers.\u00a0 Half a dozen telepath\/empaths.\u00a0 A couple of brutes, a shape-shifter, a few big brains\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
I begin to feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Depressed by seeing a not-that-great movie that everyone assured me was a Great Movie, a Pow! Wowie Zowie! Movie, I avenge myself by re-reading Charles Yu\u2019s short story \u201cThird Class Superhero.\u201d The story begins as follows: \u201cGot a letter today … Continue reading