Field guide No. 198
Two dimensions short
Front of house only.
A zebra stands in dry savanna grass, real at the front and flat brown cardboard from the middle back. Budget ran out at the stripes.
Field noteLive zebra at the front, flat cardboard at the back. One animal cannot be both, however tight the budget.
- Specimen
- No. 198
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Dry savanna grass, stage left.
- Nearest existing relative
- A zebra, and a cardboard cut-out.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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A scarf’s impossible shadowTaut scarf, slack shadow. One object, two tensions, and only one of them is telling the truth.
The horizon comes looseThe horizon is where the ground appears to end. A thing that only appears cannot peel.
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.