Field guide No. 1419
Bowling ball sinking into its shadow
The gutter was never the danger
A black bowling ball sits on a polished lane, half sunk into a black disc that is its own shadow. The pins will have to wait.
Field noteShadows are a lack of light, not a lack of floor, yet this ball is going down into its own.
- Specimen
- No. 1419
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A polished bowling lane under warm lights, before the pins.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pothole.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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Stump with standing growth ringsRings stand up beside the stump in shrinking hoops while its cut face still shows every one of them.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.
Impossible gearbox interlockTwo solid gears cannot occupy one space. These pass straight through each other’s teeth.