Field guide No. 216

An old electric fan stands on a moonlit beach, blowing neat straight rows of waves out to sea. The tide clocked off hours ago.

Overtime for the ocean

The waves are fan-made.

An old electric fan stands on a moonlit beach, blowing neat straight rows of waves out to sea. The tide clocked off hours ago.

Field noteFans make wind and wind makes waves. Neat rows to the horizon is the overtime physics won’t pay.

Specimen
No. 216
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A moonlit beach, after the tide clocked off.
Nearest existing relative
An electric fan, and waves.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics