Field guide No. 760
Unlit match, burning reflection
The mirror’s match is lit.
A small mirror on a granite counter reflects a match lying in front of it, and the reflected one is on fire, flames licking out past the frame. The real match hasn’t been told.
Field noteMirrors only repeat what is there. This one lights a match that is unlit, and the flame spills past the frame.
- Specimen
- No. 760
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark granite counter at night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A safety match.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Octopus in an impossible knotArms loop through each other in a closed knot no free end could have tied.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Snow with a molten coreLava melts snow on contact. Here they share a ball and each stays exactly what it is.
The sideways forest meetingTrees grow away from the ground they stand in. These stand in a wall and grow level, as if down were east.