Field guide No. 865
Floating safe, sinking wood and cork
The safe floats; the wood does not
A rusted safe hangs at the waterline while logs and corks lie below it in a flooded room. The objects have swapped their usual jobs.
Field noteA metal safe floats while wood and cork sink below it. The usual buoyancy rules have switched sides.
- Specimen
- No. 865
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A flooded stone room.
- Nearest existing relative
- A safe and a piece of driftwood.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The rain remembersReflections show what is above them. One puddle reporting noon at midnight is lying, which reflections can’t.
Twin oceans converge at an impossible horizonAn ocean overhead is a sky made of what should be under it. Both of them can’t be down.
Thundercloud beneath the lakeWater above, sky below, and the lake doesn’t fall through. A storm under a lake is a contradiction with lightning.
Octopus in an impossible knotArms loop through each other in a closed knot no free end could have tied.