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In the text version\u00a0of\u00a0Metropolitan Man one doesn’t realize that it’s Lex that has written the letter to Lois, until after it’s read. I thought the idea of recording that letter in Lex’s voice would be hilarious, but it didn’t occur to me until after I finished that I was giving away that part of the game.\u00a0I considered redoing it in a neutral narration voice, but that would be weird, because I always have someone else do any<\/em> voice that isn’t narrator\/Lex. And it would feel a little bit like lying to use the neutral voice. Plus the lost opportunity for audio hi-jinks! Since it’s not really a spoiler, as it’s revealed to be Lex in the very next paragraph, well… I decided to keep what I first put down. :)<\/p>\n

Turns out that Faust is a couple minutes too short for this part, and I really wanted to use Faust. That is when I discovered that dirty, shameful feeling when you end up vamping Wagner. I have vamped songs lots of times to make them fit the space needed for background, and it never felt wrong. I know that there isn’t anything intrinsically more respectable about classical music. In fact I find certain modern music to be far more moving, so if the metric was something like “has great emotional weight” or “is considered by Eneasz to be a masterpiece” then I should feel much worse about cutting up modern songs. So obviously that’s not the metric. As far as I can tell, the metric may very well be “my parents and teachers would give me very stern looks, and shake their heads sadly, if they found out.” But dammit, I did it anyway, because I have the power and power corrupts.<\/p>\n

SFX: 1940\u2019s Office<\/a><\/p>\n

Music:
\nIntro\/Outro \u2013 Handlebars, by Flobots
\n<\/a>Luthor Manor \u2013\u00a0Mozart\u2019s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik<\/a>, Wagner’s Faust<\/a>
\n<\/a>Jewelry Store – You Are My Lucky Star, by Don Bestor
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