Field guide No. 183
An honest reflection
Someone came in from outside.
A round bathroom mirror shows a sunlit forest path instead of the room, and muddy bare footprints lead down into the white sink below.
Field noteA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.
- Specimen
- No. 183
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A white bathroom, one step from a forest path.
- Nearest existing relative
- A bathroom mirror, and a sink.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
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The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
Wheelbarrow's unexpected sailboat reflectionA reflection that shows something else is not, by definition, its reflection. And yet it is.