Field guide No. 1314
Impossible bench through boulder
Seating for two, and a rock
A park bench runs straight into a boulder on one side and out of it on the other. The rock has the best seat and has no intention of moving.
Field noteBench slats enter the boulder on one side and leave intact on the other.
- Specimen
- No. 1314
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a park path by a river, under bare trees
- Nearest existing relative
- a park bench
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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