Rainbows, handled

Rainbows on the wall that can be pegged, dropped, quarried and ridden.

Over a green valley after rain, a blue clothes peg is clipped onto a rainbow halfway along its arc. It will be in by teatime if the weather holds. — “Blue peg clamps a rainbow”, Fresh slop

On the wall a rainbow is a solid thing, and people have got their hands on it. Over a green valley a blue clothes peg is clipped to one like washing; in a wet car park one has fallen and broken into glass shards in the puddles; in a quarry one runs into the rock face and carries on as coloured stone; on a sunny lane a bicycle stands on two of them for wheels.

A rainbow, left out long enough, can be handled like any other length of something, and breaks like one too. Like everything on the wall, the pictures are machine-made.

The facts

Kind: Object
World: Outside
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: “Blue peg clamps a rainbow”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Light has no edge to grip. This rainbow has one, and a peg on it, like washing on a line.
In Meinong’s jungle: “Shattered rainbow on wet asphalt”: Impossible, the round square kind. A rainbow is light and angle with no body to break. This one came down glass and smashed.