Field guide No. 1456
Lemon flames on blue enamel
Zest, at full heat.
A halved lemon on a chipped blue enamel plate, each segment full of flame instead of pulp. It still drips juice.
Field noteJuice runs out of segments that are burning, wet and alight in the same slice.
- Specimen
- No. 1456
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A chipped blue enamel plate in a hot kitchen.
- Nearest existing relative
- A halved grapefruit.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
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