Thinking about structure

The water tower behind my house. It amuses me to call it the “Iconic Delmar Watertower” in my Snapchat stories, but it’s also super-cool looking.

There’s an old saw about how to carve a dog that says you take a piece of wood and remove all the parts that don’t look like a dog. I’ve seen it in a couple of books because the aphorism appeals to writers. Th…