Field guide No. 703
Rainbow bubble trapped in quartz
Blown in, never left.
In a rocky mountain valley a boulder of clear quartz has a soap bubble set into one side, still shimmering with its rainbow skin. It has outlasted every other bubble by a few million years.
Field noteSoap bubbles last seconds and quartz lasts ages. Set into one boulder, they disagree about the time.
- Specimen
- No. 703
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A boulder field below snowy peaks.
- Nearest existing relative
- A quartz boulder, and a bubble.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Lizard swimming into plasterA lizard and its plaster impression merge on the wall. The house has become part of the animal.
Paper thin sheets, heavy shadowsSheets of paper cast shadows that drape off the table like heavy cloth.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Moths biting an amber sunbeamMoths eat wool. These eat light, and the beam keeps the bite marks as if it were cloth.