Field guide No. 1126
Hermit crab’s bubble shell
A soap-grade upgrade.
A hermit crab carries an iridescent soap bubble over a spiral shell across a blue enamel sink, with a sponge, a plate and the drain nearby. The housing market in the washing-up is fragile.
Field noteA shell that is a soap bubble is a home and a pop at once; the crab cannot live in both.
- Specimen
- No. 1126
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sink with a hermit crab in it.
- Nearest existing relative
- a hermit crab in a whelk shell.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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