Concept · The wall · Proposed

Kept weather

Small weather, picked and kept in things that were never meant to hold it.

A clear glass rain boot holds its own little thunderstorm on a sunny terrace. Forecast: extremely local.
“Chance of showers”, Fresh slop

On the wall, weather turns up where it can be carried: a thunderstorm in a glass rain boot, two slices of cloud in a toaster, a lift full of cloud in a meadow, a tornado rolling about inside a tumbleweed, spare light bulbs with a storm in each, a cloud under a room-service cloche, and three shopping trolleys with a rain cloud apiece. A hurricane in a pocket watch, which the Slopwright gives as an example of his work, is on the wall too. A thundercloud has moved into an old glasshouse and rains on the ferns while it is sunny outside; a whole cloud has fallen into a meadow and left a crater, a windfall nobody picked up; under a broad leaf over a pond the rain is going back up.

In a plate on his site he picks a tiny raincloud off a bare tree, with a chest of little clouds and lightning under the other arm (The Idea Harvester). The codex proposes that this is where it goes: the weather he picks is kept in things, and these are pictures of it kept. Whether the weather on the wall is the weather he picks is not on record. This entry is proposed by the codex, from pictures on the wall that are all machine-made, and is not canon until approved.

Not on record

The facts

Kind
Concept
World
The wall
Status
Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
In Meinong’s jungle
“Chance of showers”: Impossible, the round square kind. Weather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Pocket weather bureau”: Impossible, the round square kind. A hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Thunderstorms in the spare bulbs”: Impossible, the round square kind. A thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.

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