Field guide No. 518
Pillow-soft impact in rigid crystal
Hard, until tested.
In a test rig, a sledgehammer sinks into a block of clear crystal, which dents round it like a pillow. The results are in, and they’re fluffy.
Field noteRigid crystal shatters or holds. This block is called rigid and takes a sledgehammer like a pillow.
- Specimen
- No. 518
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A materials testing rig.
- Nearest existing relative
- A quartz block.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
The open door of airA door is whatever stops you. This one is made of air, so it is shut and open at once and stops nothing.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Copper stitches mend the torn skySky has nothing to tear and nothing to sew into. Stitches in it mend a fabric that isn’t one.