Field guide No. 1350
Red door, impossible waterfall
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A red door stands alone in a yellow squash court, a waterfall pouring out from behind it. There is no room behind it, and yet the floor is flooding.
Field noteFreestanding door pours a waterfall from a room that is not behind it.
- Specimen
- No. 1350
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- the middle of a yellow squash court
- Nearest existing relative
- an open door
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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