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From: PJ< >
Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE-L] Overview and Setting The gargoyles
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:27:30 GMT


On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:19:49 EDT, you wrote:

>Overview and Setting

>The year is now 1994, and the gargoyles have been sleeping for a thousand
>years. A rich businessman buys the castle, and moves it stone by stone to the
>top of a skyscraper in Manhattan. The sun sets on the gargoyles and they come
>back to life, free of their curse. They have a hard time dealing with their
>new environment, and have to deal with their feelings of mistrust toward
>humans. A mistrust that is deepened by another betrayal. It is revealed that
>one other gargoyle survived the destruction in 994, and she was also at the
>heart of both betrayals. Her hatred for humanity runs deep, and fuels her
>less-than-honorable intentions. The gargoyles have one human friend, a police
>detective. With her help the gargoyles begin to assimilate into the twentieth
>century, and begin to trust.

I seem to remember this premise from a cartoon called (appropriately enough)
Gargoyles. I only saw it once (that was more than enough) but this all sounds
so familiar! :)

PJ
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