Ruler
A straight edge, wooden or steel. Used for almost everything except measuring.
Rulers turn up wherever the workshop needs a straight edge to do something else. On Lamp Post two wooden rulers are the flippers, and a tilt stops them working. In Road Crossing they float on the spill and carry the glob over it, and get shorter as the levels go on: “Shorter rulers.” In Invaders the launcher rides a steel rule along the bench edge, and in Putting It Off the walls of every hole are rulers.
Not one of them is used to measure anything. That is the tape measure’s job.
The facts
- Kind
- Object
- World
- The workshop
- Also called
- Rulers, Steel rule
- Appears in
- Road Crossing, Lamp Post
- In Road Crossing
- Floats on the spill. Stand on it and it carries you
- On the Lamp Post table
- The flippers: 2 of them
More pictures
Connections
- the flippers of Lamp Post
- floats in Road Crossing
- a steel one in Invaders
- the walls of Putting It Off
- not to be confused with The tape measure