[Seldom]

I just listened to This American Life: Superpowers, a re-airing of an episode from 2001. There was the story of Zora, a six-foot amazon of a woman who made a list of all the skills she would need to be a superhero when she was 13, and then she did them!

Episode:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/superpowers

You can read a transcription here:
http://www.audiojournal.com/zora.html

Does anyone know any more about her?

[Bo Inaka]

I remember hearing that piece years ago, and remember thinking that she was delusional. If I remember right, the story kind of hinted at that. I don’t remember superpowers, I remember secret agent kinds of things though.
Do you remember the flight vs invisibility debate?

[Seldom]

boinaka wrote:

I remember hearing that piece years ago, and remember thinking that she was delusional. If I remember right, the story kind of hinted at that. I don’t remember superpowers, I remember secret agent kinds of things though.
Do you remember the flight vs invisibility debate?

The flight vs invisibility discussion was great fun.

I didn’t get that she’s delusional. Rather I got the impression that being incredibly ass-kicking and awesome doesn’t fulfill her. At the end she talks about wanting more of a social life and doing the things normal people do instead of weapons training with militia groups and finishing college by 18.

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