Field guide No. 936
Tilted water in an upright glass
The glass keeps its water level
A clear glass stands upright while the water inside tilts sharply to one side. The diner has encountered a small disagreement with gravity.
Field noteWater tilts sharply inside an upright glass. The diner has disagreed with gravity.
- Specimen
- No. 936
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A red-topped diner table.
- Nearest existing relative
- A glass of water.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Rain beneath the still lakeRain falls through a lake’s surface and continues among the stones below. The water has misplaced its ceiling.
Black sheep, white reflectionReflections return what stands over them; this pool hands back the flock’s version of the animal.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.
Impossible turbine through concreteA spinning blade and a pillar cannot share one place. Here the blades run through the concrete unharmed.