Field guide No. 1481
Refrigerator of endless velvet ropes
Queue management, chilled.
An open fridge in an old boxing gym pours out coils of red velvet rope across the floor. There is no queue to control.
Field noteFar more rope spills across the gym than a fridge that size could hold, and it keeps coming.
- Specimen
- No. 1481
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An old boxing gym, between the bags and the ring.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cinema queue barrier.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Full stopSaucers hold a cup’s spill; this one takes a river’s whole drop and isn’t even full.
Milky Way breakfastGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.
The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
A breath of cathedralA stone cathedral, nave and organ, cannot sit inside a soap bubble. This bubble carries one aloft.
