Field guide No. 264
A soap-sized desert in the mirror
Lather in front, dunes in the reflection.
A wet bar of green soap sits on a dish by a tiled bathroom mirror, and in the mirror its dish holds a little desert of rippled dunes at sunset. Somebody's bathroom has been washing with sand.
Field noteThe mirror shows a different dish than the one in front of it, and a desert the size of soap. Two faults.
- Specimen
- No. 264
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A tiled bathroom, on both sides of the glass.
- Nearest existing relative
- A bar of soap, and a bathroom mirror.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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The chair's impossible treeA shadow is a chair’s outline or it isn’t a chair’s shadow. This one is a tree’s, cast by a chair.
A scarf’s impossible shadowTaut scarf, slack shadow. One object, two tensions, and only one of them is telling the truth.