The night, kept
Pieces of the night sky kept in eggs, bowls, baths and umbrellas, and handed out by lamps.
On the wall the night turns up in small amounts, often in daylight. One egg in a carton of twelve is deep blue and full of stars; milk spirals up out of a cereal bowl into a galaxy; a bathtub drifting in space is full to the brim with one; a colander lit from inside throws stars across a dark room; an upturned umbrella on a wet street holds a whole starry sky; a gramophone horn in the desert is full of stars; on a steel workbench two horseshoe magnets hold a spiral galaxy stretched out between them. In a sunny plaza the street lamps shine tall cones of starry dark down onto the paving, one over a bench, each lamp handing out a bit of night.
The lamp on the bench is a light that stays on. These are the other way round: the night kept in things the way weather is, and let out a little at a time. A night sky also spills out of a machine in the laundromat, and a moth has eaten through one.
The facts
- Kind
- Concept
- World
- The wall
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Municipal shade in a sunlit plaza”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Street lamps are there to get rid of the night. These dispense it in cones, for anyone who wants a sit.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “The starry egg in the carton”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Taken as a painted egg, it passes. Taken as a carton holding the sky, it would be a different file.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Milky Way breakfast”: Impossible, the round square kind. Galaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.
More pictures
On the wall
Pieces of Fresh slop with this in them. The pictures don’t say they are the same one.
Connections
- kept the same way as Kept weather
- the other way round from The lamp
- spills, some of it, in The all-night laundromat
- eaten through by Moths, generally
- The northern lights let out like this