Field guide No. 1619
Shared storage
Filed under: further drawers.
In a green records office, a steel filing cabinet stands open. Inside its drawers are more cabinets with more drawers, all spilling paper.
Field noteDrawers inside drawers inside drawers, the cabinet keeping a smaller cabinet as its own records.
Also possible, also breaking scale
A measure of distanceRulers can be made long. Long enough for the horizon would need a very patient foundry.
Bread dough breaking through asphaltDough rises, given warmth and time. Under a crossroads it has had both and lifted the tarmac clean off.
The horse's impossible snow hoovesHoofprints far larger than the hoof that made them. The horse is ordinary; its tracks simply came from a bigger animal.
Slow amusementA miniature funfair on a glass snail is a model maker’s commission. Ambitious, not absurd.