Field guide No. 688
Moth extruding an empty cocoon
Still moving out.
A grey moth clings to a lichen-covered twig, and from the end of its body trails a long, empty, papery cocoon, like a windsock. It has left home but brought the box.
Field noteThe cocoon is supposed to come first. This moth is out, grown, and still spinning the case it came from.
- Specimen
- No. 688
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A bare twig against a white sky.
- Nearest existing relative
- A moth and its cocoon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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Wallpaper roses take flightPrinted roses are ink on paper with no depth. These lift off as blooms and fly, which ink cannot do.
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