Field guide No. 673
Impossible red and white stairwell
Up, and then up the other way.
In a bare red room a concrete staircase with a steel rail climbs to the ceiling and carries on climbing along it, upside down. Use the handrail on the way back.
Field noteBoth flights are up. One rises from the floor, one from the ceiling, and they meet as one stair.
- Specimen
- No. 673
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A bare red room with tall windows.
- Nearest existing relative
- A concrete staircase.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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