Loose stripes
Zebra stripes that come off, and some that were never finished.
On the wall a zebra’s stripes slip off onto the grass like ribbon. Another zebra is striped only at the front, with a reel of black ribbon lying in the grass beside it; another is flat cardboard from the middle back. A white horse walks out of a motel courtyard with its stripes trailing behind; a set of stripes comes out of the wash in the laundromat on its own; the stripes of a zebra crossing wander off across a field.
The codex proposes that stripes are put on, the way shadows are cast, and come loose the same way. Who puts them on is not on record: the reel is in the picture and the hand never is. 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
- Outside
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “The zebra’s unfinished stripes”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Stripes are pigment, not ribbon, so the spool is a category slip. The half-zebra is otherwise sound.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Zebra stripes slip to the ground”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Markings sliding off like loose tape: hide doesn’t work that way, though nothing here contradicts itself.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Wandering crosswalk stripes”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Paint leaving the road is an adhesion failure with initiative. Nothing in it contradicts itself.
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.
Connections
- come loose like Loose shadows
- wound on a reel like The spools
- The all-night laundromat washes this