Field guide No. 666
Grass through the red deer
Grazing, in reverse.
Three red deer stags stand on a moor by a loch, and long grass grows straight through their bodies and out the other side. They seem untroubled, which is the deer way.
Field noteGrass and stag occupy the same space here, each solid, neither giving way to the other.
- Specimen
- No. 666
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A grassy moor by a loch.
- Nearest existing relative
- The red deer.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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