Field guide No. 1473
Ping pong ball with a cubic bite
Missing a piece, precisely.
A ping pong ball on a rusting outdoor table with a square notch cut out, the matching white cube sitting beside it. A hollow ball has given up a solid block.
Field noteCelluloid balls are hollow, yet the cube cut from this one is solid white all through.
- Specimen
- No. 1473
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rusting outdoor table tennis table in a bare park.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sugar cube.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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