empire state

Ahead, the spire of the Empire State Building pierced the night sky in a blaze of white light. They reached the building’s corner just in time to witness a scene which Denham would have sworn no one of them could believe, even as they sat watching. From a roof on the upper side of the street, Kong leaped. His black, monstrous body curved in a long arc, clear across the street to the skyscraping “structure opposite. And then he pulled himself up, from window ledge to window ledge, until he turned the corner of the building and vanished.


Merian C. Cooper's King Kong, Chapter 23