Testimonial: Crane Operator by Gerry Hill Every day he climbs to his cab at the top of a mast 17 storeys high and from there controls a 60 metre boom that lifts anything the ever-increasing height of the building beneath him could ever need. The view is dazzling (although mostly down) and at lunch the guys want to see what he sees and hear what's on his radio, and lift and let go all the time like he does, pulling the building out of the ground, Come to Papa—despite all that, the crane operator resists self-reflection. Ask the Project Manager, he says. I've got work to do, and his boom swings 40 degrees left. Yes, but yesterday while dozing to CBC he heard the cellist Denise Djokic rave about her 1696 Strad, one of 50 left in the world. It's so responsive and sensitive to every move you make, Djokic said, and here the crane operator sat up to hear. You don't have to exaggerate your ideas to communicate, she said. It's the greatest sensation, to know that the instrument will pick up every detail of your emotions and feelings. True enough, thought the crane operator, admitting he's never known an emotion or feeling he hasn't picked up. Gerry Hill has a good view, too.

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