Field guide No. 868
Glass note holds the barn door
A note holds the barn shut
A transparent glass-like musical note stretches from a violin in the straw to a heavy barn door. The instrument has found a practical use for resonance.
Field noteA musical note stretches from a violin to hold a barn door open. Sound has taken a physical shift.
- Specimen
- No. 868
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A timber barn.
- Nearest existing relative
- A violin and a barn door.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
A soap-sized desert in the mirrorThe mirror shows a different dish than the one in front of it, and a desert the size of soap. Two faults.
Horse emerging from a chalk outlineHalf chalk and half horse, joined at the ribs, and the chalk half is walking too.
Yellow gloves wring a steel chainWringing squeezes water out of cloth. This chain gives up little chains, as if steel were wet.
Peel backBoulder’s shadow lifts off the wet sand at the far end like a strip of tape.