Field guide No. 1386
The lining that outgrew the shop
Tailored to fit the room
In a tailor’s workroom one dark coat hangs from a hook while its satin lining billows out to cover the walls and ceiling. The coat stayed coat-sized; its inside did not.
Field noteSatin from one hanging coat’s lining sweeps over the whole workroom, far bigger than the coat that holds it.
- Specimen
- No. 1386
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- an old tailor’s workroom with a sewing machine by the window
- Nearest existing relative
- a parachute canopy
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
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Blue locomotive through a concrete keyholeFull size on both sides and thin as a key in the middle. A train cannot pass that hole without being two widths at once.
Sleeping ginger cat’s inner staircaseGinger fur holds a full flight of stairs inside the mouth, taller than the cat around it.