Field guide No. 755
Tiny tennis ball, vast asphalt pit
Out.
On an outdoor hard court, the surface sags into a deep funnel and a single tennis ball sits at the very bottom. The line goes down with it.
Field noteA ball that weighs grams has pulled the court into a crater. Nothing that light bends asphalt that far.
- Specimen
- No. 755
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An outdoor hard court with blue fencing.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tennis ball.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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