Man is a being stitched together by Time and Eternity, neither fixed or immutable--Time remembering itself as Eternity--a monumental crisis of consciousness.

The best kept secret of American superhero comics has always been the aspirational and inspirational ideals of superheroes to readers. In the same way Bruce Wayne uses Batman to push the limits of the expression of his humanity, readers have used Batman for the same purposes. Superheroes are the repositories of extraordinary examples of moral and evolutionary volition. This is why they endure.