Lex is in a dark room, working with a mysterious, bluish-reddish-glowing metal. His look is grave, the look of an isolated man. Eve Tessmacher approaches tentatively, somewhat tremulously.
Eve Tessmacher: (with deep, anxious concern) Lex, are you okay?
Lex Luthor: I'm okay, Eve, I'm okay. Just fine.
Eve Tessmacher: Okay, Lex. (pause) Are you sure?
Lex Luthor: I'm sure, Eve. I'm working toward a new dawn. Toward the dawn of day.
Eve Tessmacher: I feel sad for you spending so much time in the dark.
Lex Luthor: It's my element. Don't worry about me.
Eve Tessmacher: What's that metal you're working at?
Lex Luthor: I'm picking up where Marie Curie left off. It's radium.
Eve Tessmacher: (pause) Marie Curie died of radiation poisoning, didn't she?
Lex Luthor: She died for science. One of its heroes.
Eve Tessmacher: You don't have to be a hero for me, Lex.
Lex Luthor: I'm not a hero. Superman's a hero.
Eve Tessmacher: I love YOU, Lex.
Lex Luthor: Love ya too, Eve.
Eve exits the room, tentatively, with still deep concern
Lois Lane walking fractals walking through (Lois Lane writes all her copy in stream-of-consciousness, presumably for Perry White to edit) Metropolis by Lex Luthor's steps and signals and colour-schemes on neon flashing signs and neon billboards and headlights and traffic lights and strange, irrevocable, gated maze of care motions and rigidly iron-gated car manipulations motions, as computer architecture nodes and gates and on/off switches.. binary iron-gates of car motions and switches..
Lois goes through a whole self-avoiding walk through the irregular flow-charted streets and pathways of Metropolis, of Braniac circuit board architecture of Metropolis future Braniac-13 future potential perpetual present reality as invisible electronic future potential like the neurochemical threshold electric potential of neurons as future electric potential the threshhold of Metropolis's future into or against the Apocalypse (apocolips or new genesis?)..a path into the Apocalypse or a a path against the apocalypse a path of electric resistance of the apocalypse electronic resisters of the Apocalypse incapacitance Superman's indecisives? His Hesitence? Like Hamlet's? Like H.C. Earwicker's? HecItANcy? Clark Kent's occasional civilian hesitant stutterent in civilized hesitancy which is the mark of a gentleman settling his eyeglasses and stabilizing his optics of equilibrium so it can be an equilibrium of the future, a threshold resistance of stabilizing hesitancy of the future before a threshold of the apocalypse;
And indecisive abyss between Heaven and hell a gulf of hesitancy, Hamlet's gulf which beetle's o'ere the base a rocky cliff-face of suicide cliff of suicide future of world-suicide of apocalypse Jonestown (Lois Lane: “All roads lead to Jonestown.”) a step into the the future of Hamlet's stepping through abyss swamps of soggy depths of blackness pitch night sins dark as pitch through which I walk 'till a step “I will go no further” Superman's step-avoidance as self-avoidance from future apocalypse..
francis ford copolla can direct this scene in superman man of tomorrow...
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