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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20030521
Author:Hampton, Howard

buffy amok in d.h. lawrence's world

Why blood?" Good question, Xander-Buffy the Vampire Slayer's semi-hapless friend, factotum, and stand-up fall guy is wondering why it happens to be the currency of yet another typically cruel rite of underworldly passage ("Why couldn't it be, like, a lymph ritual?"), to say nothing of demonic exchange and appetite. " 'Cause it's always got to be blood," answers quasi-reformed, chip-in-head, Slayer-loving vamp Spike. "Blood is life, lackbrain. . . . It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead. 'Course it's her blood."

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