Field guide No. 1173
Red straws through the table
Billed to the other side.
Red striped straws stand in a glass on a cream diner table, and their ends poke out through the underside into the booth’s shadow. The straws have reached the lower tier of the establishment, and the milkshake has not.
Field noteStraws stand in a glass and poke out beneath the table. The tabletop is solid on its upper side only.
- Specimen
- No. 1173
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A diner booth.
- Nearest existing relative
- A glass of straws on a table.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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