Field guide No. 879
Lavender hallway's impossible vacuum
The vacuum stretches the hall
A vacuum cleaner's hose extends to a tiny point at the far end of a long lavender hallway. The cleaning job is not getting shorter.
Field noteA vacuum cleaner faces a hallway that narrows to a distant point. The cleaning job has acquired a long horizon.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Harbor stringsGlass violins exist, and so do model harbours. Neither is improved by the tide, but both survive it.
Bobbing apples in the flooded aisleApples are carved here like pumpkins and grown to a pumpkin’s size. Big fruit, no paradox.
Velvet curtain splits day and nightCurtains divide rooms. One big enough for a valley could divide the sky, if night agreed to stay behind it.
The square ended snail shellWhorls of a giant shell turn into nested square tunnels at its mouth, a spiral finished with a set square.