The voice of reason tells us that it is simply impossible to soar a woman in half and then just glue it back together none the less we smile joyously as children and give the magician around of generous applause.
No wonder you think of The Last Supper when you see this picture, for Rembrandt has painted a secular altarpiece. Mysterious, dangerous, joyously profane.
It was he who broke his way through and under the fence, he who raced joyously under my bedroom to scratch, he who galloped, butt wobbling, tail curling, to the trays of feed and the petunia bed.
So Sara was led grandly in and felt shy when, on her entry, the big girls stared at her and touched each other's elbows, and the little ones began to squirm joyously in their seats.
This happens normally during the peak of dry season, but climate change has created evening thunderstorms, turning normally dry hills green and creating freshwater streams in which the flamingos joyously bathe.