And then, on the fourth day, there it was: a hulking red-and-white platform, 40 storeys tall and 117,000 tonnes, with wells snaking out from its base like tentacles – a monstrosity in this pristine landscape.
After the heady, pungent Southern anthems ("Find the River", Everybody Hurts", "Nightswimming") on Automatic, 1994's Monster felt like a rock monstrosity, too brash, too confident, less like the outsiders they always felt like.
If people will pay extra for meat from a monstrosity like the Belgian blue, anything is possible.
The same materials that can form a great monument can also be used, as the Lego pieces show, to build a monstrosity like a death camp.
Anat Hoffman, the leader of Women of the Wall, called Mr. Bennett's new plaza a "monstrosity" that "looks like a sunbathing deck" or a "rock-star stage".
When Norwich released their third kit it was variously described as "genius", a "monstrosity", "bird poo", "inspired" and "looking like bus seats".
Shortly after the climactic battle scene of this final instalment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit series gets underway, an outsize troll-like monstrosity with a pointed stone headpiece runs full tilt into a fortress wall, making a breach through which a bunch of orcs and other malevolent nasties can pour through.
He calls the scheme a monstrosity.
"It was just a monstrosity," he says.
