5. The Gargoyle Ray
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They follow him to France and arrive at the unfinished Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, learning of the cathedral's use of gargoyles and demons. The children use Moundshroud's magic to finish the cathedral, and Wally climbs to reach a Pip-shaped gargoyle that is holding Pip's pumpkin. He begs Pip to be strong; Pip flees again and the group follows.
In addition to the church, visitors can view the other impressive features of the site. One of the most fascinating ruins left at the mission is the old lavanderia. Just to the south of the mission church, this structure consisted of a tiled irrigation system in which water spouted from the mouths of carved gargoyles. The water was diverted from the nearby San Luis Rey River and used for both bathing and the laundering of garments. The water capturing and retention system was advanced, even by modern standards. The lavanderia has been an archeological site since its unearthing in 1955, and today visitors can see its tiled stairs, channels and stone pools. The gargoyles remain intact and are believed to be the only known examples of carved Luiseno sculpture.
In a dismal-looking place called Quarrel Castle, a baby gargoyle sits on a balcony and listens to his owners, a married couple of sorcerers named Selwyn and Tallulah, argue with each other. He is sad and lonely because he has nobody else to play with, as Selwyn and Tallulah take turns attacking each other with their magic powers even as Tallulah cleans the house and Selwyn does the laundry. Tallulah feels sorry for their pet and tells Selwyn they should create a playmate for him, but Selwyn is too busy arguing with his wife to even want to think about changing the subject. The baby gargoyle feels he has no choice but to fly away from home and leave the unhappy couple to their endless bickering.
He soon hears a group of happy little voices all enjoying playing a game with each other. The Smurfs are out near the edge of the forest playing smurfball, and as the gargoyle watches, Hefty kicks the ball high into a tree and knocks the gargoyle down from the branch he was standing on. Smurfette checks the creature to see if he is all right, though Hefty warns her to be careful because he looks dangerous. The creature convinces that he isn't as he tries to tell the Smurfs where he came from and that all he wants to do is find somebody to play with. Hefty allows the gargoyle they now call Tharp to join in on the smurfball game and encourages him to give the ball a kick. Tharp swats the ball with his tail, and it ends up going into a burrow that Vanity goes into to try finding it with no success. But then, Tharp has an idea of how to replace the missing smurfball.
The Smurfs back at the edge of the forest are mourning the loss of their smurfball and the premature end of their smurfball game when Tharp shows up to save the day with his own ball. Hefty is ready to continue the game by giving the ball a mighty kick when Papa Smurf appears to interrupt the game, telling his little Smurfs that it's time for lunch and then afternoon chores. Then Papa Smurf sees that Tharp is with them, and the Smurfs are surprised to find out that Papa Smurf has known the baby gargoyle since he was less than Smurf-size. Papa Smurf finds out from Tharp that his owners, Selwyn and Tallulah, who are old friends of his, are still arguing with each other. Smurfette tries to assure Tharp that Smurfs never argue with each other, only for Jokey to prove otherwise. Smurfette asks Papa Smurf if they could have Tharp over for lunch, and Papa Smurf approves, saying that one extra guest couldn't hurt.
As Selwyn and Tallulah spend some private moments expressing their love for each other inside a dark cave, the Smurfs get ready to play smurfball again. Clumsy asks Hefty if he could do the kickoff, and Hefty allows him to do so, but as Clumsy tries to kick the ball, he trips and falls on his back before his foot makes contact with the ball. Clumsy then suggests that they would let Tharp do the kickoff, and so the gargoyle gives the ball a kick, and it explodes, revealing that it is the Orb Of Hydra as a three-headed hydra grows from inside it and spews out fire. The Smurfs run for cover and safety as the hydra attacks them, but now Papa Smurf wonders where Tharp is, as he doesn't see the gargoyle anywhere. Nonetheless, he tells Hefty to get the fire brigade quickly.
Selwyn and Tallulah return to Quarrel Castle, only for Selwyn to find out that the Orb Of Hydra has been switched with Tharp's ball, and that Tharp must now have the orb. Fearing the danger that the gargoyle would put himself and others in if the orb was opened, Selwyn and Tallulah now search the forest to find where Tharp has taken the orb.
In Sanctuary: Book Two, the latest installment of The Stone Man Mysteries series, magic and mystery collide in Scotland. When a young girl escapes the underworld, she seeks refuge with Silex the gargoyle and his human assistant Craig. Her presence soon forces Craig and Silex to tangle with a fallen angel and supernatural hounds threatening Edinburgh. Written by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple and illustrated by Orion Zangara, this atmospheric YA graphic novel will keep readers riveted.
And then last night happened. I didn't sleep well-a combination of coffee and Drunk Girl. Drunk Girl had apparently mistaken my neighbourhood for a gutter, and was sitting outside yelling, \"Hey Sexies!\" (All the Sexies in my neighbourhood had gone to bed.) \"I'm not wearing any underwear,\" she warbled. \"Twenty bucks and I'll throw in my virginityyy.\" Suddenly I thought to myself: two birds; one stone. I threw open the balcony door, grabbed the garbage bag and chucked it over the railing. The maggots missed Drunk Girl by a hair's breadth. \"What the fuck\" I was quite pleased. I had reclaimed my balcony and expelled an intruder in one lob ball. I looked down onto the street with a monstrous grin and realized that I was a gargoyle.
Normally, I'm a bit turned off by short stories, frustrated by their lack of narrative trajectory. (The same applies to those Parker Posey Pepsi commercials; I want them to keep going.) Gargoyles, however, does keep going. The characters change, but the story remains constant. Gaston creates in his gargoyles a group of people struggling to protect their homes, even when they're homeless.
In \"Forms in Winter,\" Gaston forgoes metaphor to create a real gargoyle. The narrator, a grieving father, laments the loss of his son who died while living on the streets. Gaston writes: \"One worker's job was made all the more bleak when he pulled a sheet of form away and there near the bottom, at the height of the worker's knees, instead of smooth new cement was fabric and flesh. Enough of Andy's face was showing.\" As if to atone for his sins as a negligent father, the narrator moves into the building that killed his son. Heavy-handed Maybe. It's also affecting in a way that characterizes the entire collection.
Of all the conceptions of the human mind, from unicorns to gargoyles to the hydrogen bomb, the most fantastic, perhaps, is the black hole; a hole in space with a definite edge into which anything can fall and out of which nothing can escape; a hole with a gravitational force so strong that even light is caught and held in its grip; a hole that curves space and warps time. Like unicorns and gargoyles, black holes seem more at home in the realms of science fiction and ancient myth than in the real Universe. Nonetheless, well-tested laws of physics predict firmly that black holes exist. 781b155fdc