Heavy feathers
Feathers on the wall that outweigh what they are put against: steel, a freight wagon, an anvil, a stone.
On the wall a feather wins. A bank of white feathers is pressed into a sheet of steel by a factory press, and another bank pours from a chute and lays an iron beam over; a freight wagon hangs from one arm of a crane, balanced by a single feather on the other; an anvil sinks into a heap of feathers; a feather lies at the bottom of each of four small craters in grey sand, and another on a boulder that has folded in the middle like a cushion; every seat in an empty theatre tilts toward one on the red carpet; a feather hits a steel ball and the ball splashes. An anvil floats on a string over a salt flat like a balloon, and a trumpet is stuffed with a whisper’s worth.
The codex proposes that a feather on the wall weighs whatever it needs to, and that the soft things it lands on give way first. The trumpet is a sound with a body and counts there too. This entry is proposed by the codex, from pictures on the wall that are all machine-made, and is not canon until approved.
The facts
- Kind
- Concept
- World
- The wall
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- On record since
- 26 October 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Freight wagon outweighed by a feather”: Impossible, the round square kind. A feather balances a freight wagon on a crane. The scales have taken the day off.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Anvil yielding to feathers”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. A black iron anvil sinks softly into a heap of feathers. It found the one seat that does not ring.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Feathers forged into steel”: Impossible, the round square kind. White feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
More pictures
On the wall
Pieces of Fresh slop with this in them, grouped here by the proposal. The pictures don’t say they are the same one.
