Field guide No. 1354
Road beyond the vanishing point
Further than far
A straight road narrows to its vanishing point, then opens out wide again beyond it. The horizon got there and found more road.
Field noteLane lines meet at the vanishing point, then the road widens again past it.
- Specimen
- No. 1354
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a straight road across harvested plains
- Nearest existing relative
- a long straight road
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Suspended river loop over moorlandWater over water, with nothing between them but the river’s own curve. Rivers don’t make their own bridges.
Impossible bench through boulderBench slats enter the boulder on one side and leave intact on the other.
The short strawLow sun should stretch a giraffe’s neck across the ground; this shadow got the neck of a pony.
Five sparrows, five gravitiesGravity has one down per place. Five sparrows on one twig have five, which makes the branch a disagreement.