Field guide No. 530
The self-returning laboratory door
Always back where you started.
In a tiled institutional corridor, a heavy wooden door swings open and bends back round into its own frame, so the way through leads straight back out. Very secure, in its way.
Field noteDoors lead somewhere else. This one bends back into its own frame, so going through it is the same as staying.
- Specimen
- No. 530
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A tiled institutional corridor.
- Nearest existing relative
- A swing door.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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