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coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-11 05:50 pm
coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-11 05:50 pm
Xover (Buffy/Smallville): An Englishman in Smallville by Hope
An Englishman in Smallville (Giles, Lex | ? | ?) has Giles traveling to Smallville in orger to acquire Lex's box made from St. George's armor. It's a short but satisfying read.
Excerpt:
Thankfully, the town itself was rather ordinary. Giles had had quite enough odd for one day, ordinary oddities consisting of a stuttering farm boy who couldn't look him in the eye even when answering simple questions such as, "I'm looking for Clark Kent, do you know where I might find him?" And odd consisting of an unfortunately prematurely bald man traipsing about a structure the locals no doubt called a castle, and that was the trouble with an American education: it instilled an utter inability to call things what they were. Giles had acquiesced to calling a toilet a bathroom, and a photocopy a Xerox, but he absolutely refused to ignore centuries of art and architectural history to name what was plainly a godawful Victorian manor house a castle.
Excerpt:
Thankfully, the town itself was rather ordinary. Giles had had quite enough odd for one day, ordinary oddities consisting of a stuttering farm boy who couldn't look him in the eye even when answering simple questions such as, "I'm looking for Clark Kent, do you know where I might find him?" And odd consisting of an unfortunately prematurely bald man traipsing about a structure the locals no doubt called a castle, and that was the trouble with an American education: it instilled an utter inability to call things what they were. Giles had acquiesced to calling a toilet a bathroom, and a photocopy a Xerox, but he absolutely refused to ignore centuries of art and architectural history to name what was plainly a godawful Victorian manor house a castle.