A well-kept secret
A walnut in a bench vice, fitted with a tiny brass hinge and latch.
A piece of Fresh slop. Whatever’s inside is not coming out without a warrant, or a nutcracker.
The facts
- Kind
- Object
- World
- The wall
- Appears in
- Fresh slop
- Fresh slop
- Objects. A walnut sits squeezed in a blue bench vice, fitted with a tiny brass hinge and latch like a jewellery box. Whatever's inside is not coming out without a warrant.
- Subtitle
- Hinged, latched, clamped.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “A well-kept secret”: Possible, the the golden mountain kind. A jeweller could hinge a walnut by teatime. The vice is just there to make a point.
Connections
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