Field guide No. 732
Stingray piano on the empty shore
Grand, with a sting.
A black grand piano stands on a pebble beach with a stingray for its lid, tail curling up where the prop should be. Nobody has asked it to play.
Field noteHalf a grand piano and half a ray, joined at the lid. The lid is alive, which a lid must not be.
- Specimen
- No. 732
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A grey pebble shore at low tide.
- Nearest existing relative
- A grand piano.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
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