Concept · The wall · Proposed

Straight through

Things that pass through solids and leave no crack: bread, granite, a table, a lock.

A yellow canoe passes straight through a rough grey boulder on a concrete slab, with its two halves emerging at either end. The boulder has not been asked to move.
“Yellow canoe through stone”, Fresh slop

On the wall the solid thing doesn’t mind. A basketball goes through a hole in a giant slice of bread; a red beach ball pokes out of both sides of a granite boulder with no crack in the stone; a yellow canoe passes straight through a rough boulder with its halves on either side; red striped straws stand in a glass on a diner table and poke out through its underside; a blue butterfly’s wing slips through a rusted padlock; a silk ribbon passes through the teeth of a large industrial saw; a dandelion grows through a rusted bucket; a dachshund stretches through a small gate opening with its two ends on opposite sides; a locomotive squeezes through a keyhole in a concrete wall; pine needles cross a solid branch shadow; a green lizard and its plaster impression merge on a turquoise wall; a white rabbit burrows through a heavy red theatre curtain; a pigeon stands beside a photograph it appears to have torn through.

The codex proposes that this is the odd doors on a smaller scale: the wall has let go of what a solid is for, and a thing goes through if it is the right shape. 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
“Yellow canoe through stone”: Impossible, the round square kind. A solid canoe and a solid boulder occupy the same place. Both are stated to be hard; the picture cannot keep that up.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Beach ball through granite”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. From both sides of a boulder with no crack emerges a red beach ball. The rock denies involvement.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Blue locomotive through a concrete keyhole”: Impossible, the round square kind. Full size on both sides and thin as a key in the middle. A train cannot pass that hole without being two widths at once.

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