On the wall some things that are round by nature have come out with corners. A red onion cut in half has square rings; a rusted radiator gives off cube-shaped soap bubbles; a dust devil rises off the desert as a sharp-edged block; an open oyster holds a pearl that is a perfect cube; a woodpecker chips a tree trunk into neat wooden cubes.
The opposite of things gone soft: here the hard corners came from nowhere. It is one thing happening in many places, and nobody knows why. Like everything on the wall, the pictures are machine-made.
The facts
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- The wall
- Canon since
- 2026-10-20
- On record since
- 20 October 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Square ringed red onion”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Onions grow in rounds. This one grew in nested squares, and it is still an onion.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Impossible cubic pearl in oyster”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Pearls grow round because nacre goes on in layers. This oyster layered one with corners.
More pictures
On the wall
Pieces of Fresh slop with this in them. The pictures don’t say they are the same one.
