Field guide No. 055
Scale transit
Silver line, running on time.
A giant silver fish arches over a harbour as a viaduct, with a train running along its back. Fresh service every hour.
Field noteViaducts arch; so do leaping fish. Casting one as the other is civil engineering with flair.
Also possible, also breaking category
The sleeping matchSheep sleep and matches are wooden. Combining the two takes a carpenter, not a paradox.
Cracked eggshell bag, golden yolkA paper bag printed with speckles holds a yolk badly but coherently. Packaging, misjudged.
Seals and the surging seaA screen is a picture of the sea, not the sea. The seals came anyway.
Room to expandBellows-shaped buildings are a structural engineer’s problem, not a philosopher’s.