Field guide No. 866
Flying bat, sleeping shadow
The bat is flying; the shadow is not
A bat flies through a limestone cave while its shadow stays pinned to the rock. The lighting has chosen a favorite.
Field noteThe bat flies while its shadow stays asleep on the cave wall. The shadow has stopped being a shadow.
- Specimen
- No. 866
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A limestone cave.
- Nearest existing relative
- A flying bat.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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