Sex. All those complications, all that messiness. It's like watching a group of enthusiasts really get into a hobby that you don't share.
Of course, the advantage of having both invented and mobile geography is that you can demolish it without aggravating people quite so much. I mean, readers might get just the teensiest bit upset at a superhero fight that knocks the capital off the Chrysler Building, for example — or they might think it's the coolest thing ever!
When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? / An urgent revelation in a haystack-mounded field?