Field guide No. 129
The paperweight glacier
Holds down the desk, and the cold.
A crystal paperweight on an office desk contains a mountain range, and its glacier pours out across the tabletop.
Field noteA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
- Specimen
- No. 129
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An office desk, downhill from the inbox.
- Nearest existing relative
- A crystal paperweight, and a glacier.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
A spoonful of seaA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
Cold desertDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.
Pearl of the nightPearls are small and grow in oysters. The moon is neither, yet here it is, being both.
Moonlight in the drawerThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.