That afternoon there was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking
down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas a woman
saw a great long white spine with a huge tail at the end that lifted and
swung with the tide while the east wind blew a heavy steady sea outside
the entrance to the harbour. "What's that?" she asked a
waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the great fish that was now
just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.
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