Field guide No. 1352
Reflection lifts a river mud slab
Propped up by appearances
A slab of dried mud on a drained river flat is tilted up and resting on its own shiny reflection. The reflection has turned solid to take the weight.
Field noteMud slab rests on its own reflection, which has turned solid and bears the weight.
- Specimen
- No. 1352
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a puddle on a drained river flat
- Nearest existing relative
- a lifted paving slab
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The self-returning laboratory doorDoors lead somewhere else. This one bends back into its own frame, so going through it is the same as staying.
Floating safe, sinking wood and corkA metal safe floats while wood and cork sink below it. The usual buoyancy rules have switched sides.
Silver fish along an invisible tideMinnows school along a drained channel’s tidemark, swimming in water that isn’t there.
Flames within the icebergA fire inside ice that doesn’t melt it is both hot and not hot at the same place.