> I want to read this when you get it done.
> I'll definitely look for it on the boards.
If I get done. I am better at background and outlines than at Characters and dialog.
I don't think Clark could match Lois' opening line, but I have an idea about that. I think Mitchell, her original escort for the ball, does not beg off but is sick and delays her arrival till well after Luthor's appearence.
This allows Clark time to greet the "Great Man".
For an opening line for Clark, who does not know of Lois' plans, I'm thinking a statement in Chinese about Luthor's fondness for Sun Tzu (author of "The Art of War")
Luthor replies in Chinese and Clark offers him a gift, a slim leather volume, it bears the imprint of the "The London School of Economics, Oxford University Press" and it is a translation, from the Greek, of a manuscript recently recovered by a dig led by a Professor Lang in Egypt. It is a commentary on Sun Tzu's Art of War written in Greek by "Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon" otherwise known as Alexander the Great. The translators are listed as Professor [insert first name] Lang and "Clark Kent".
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Luthor expresses his delight and saying he did not know a translation was already available. Only after a discussion of the commantary does Luthor find out Clark's name.
Later after Lois had done her "Why haven't you returned my calls" and has snuck into the back rooms she is discovered by Luthor who is escorting Clark back to show him the sword in his collection once owned by Alexander.
