Field guide No. 459
Magnets stretch a luminous galaxy
Pulling in both directions.
On a steel workbench, two red horseshoe magnets face each other with a spiral galaxy stretched out between their poles. Very strong magnets, or a very small galaxy.
Field noteA galaxy is the largest thing on any bench. This one fits between two magnets, so it’s huge and handheld.
- Specimen
- No. 459
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A steel workbench in a dark workshop.
- Nearest existing relative
- A horseshoe magnet.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Autumn under glassA forest, waterfall and all, in an acorn, in autumn, in the snow. Too much, and too late in the year.
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.
Asphalt puddles into deep spaceA pothole a foot deep with a galaxy in it is bigger inside than out. The tarmac contradicts itself.
Milky Way breakfastGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.