“I didn‘t see it until I entered the house that night and went up to my room. But there it was, framed in the twilight in a window, surreal and vivid: the monster in midair, suspended by the crane. It‘s neck was thrust backward so that it‘s head tilted toward the east mountains, it‘s arms and legs were dropping toward the ground, the great, delicate tail one long comma, looking tattered and unlovely out of the water.”