Field guide No. 1218

A cobbled lane in a pastel old town is rolled back like a rug at one end, showing a curl of pale backing. It is a tidy way to close a street.

The impossible cobblestone scroll

Rolled up and put aside.

A cobbled lane in a pastel old town is rolled back like a rug at one end, showing a curl of pale backing. It is a tidy way to close a street.

Field noteRolled back like a rug, the lane shows its backing. Stone does not flex, but a rolled street contradicts nothing.

Specimen
No. 1218
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
Old towns, where streets stay laid
Nearest existing relative
a cobbled lane beside a rolled rug.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking material