Field guide No. 1333
Noon in the coffee puddle
Sunny side up
A coffee spill on a diner table reflects a bright midday sun and clouds, though the windows show dusk. The coffee has kept its own hours.
Field noteSpilt coffee reflects a midday sun and clouds under a diner ceiling at dusk.
- Specimen
- No. 1333
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a red tabletop in an evening diner
- Nearest existing relative
- a spilt drink
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Stump with standing growth ringsRings stand up beside the stump in shrinking hoops while its cut face still shows every one of them.
Ironing a trail of frostAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
The self-returning laboratory doorDoors lead somewhere else. This one bends back into its own frame, so going through it is the same as staying.
Floating safe, sinking wood and corkA metal safe floats while wood and cork sink below it. The usual buoyancy rules have switched sides.