Codex

Concept · The wall · Proposed

Beams that break

Beams of light on the wall that can be cut, bent, aged and sat on.

In an empty concrete hall, a vertical blue beam slices straight through a red laser, and the cut-off piece of red beam drops and bounces on the floor. Someone should sweep that up.
“Light cut by light”, Fresh slop

On the wall a beam of light is a thing with ends. In an empty cinema a projector’s beam runs in glassy blocks with a section missing, and the missing piece lies on the floor; in a concrete hall a blue beam cuts a red laser through and the off-cut drops and bounces; a feather drifting over an empty stage bends a green laser upward; a red beam goes into a brass hourglass in an attic and comes out the other side as rusted iron; in an abandoned room a chair is made of dust and the sunlight from a window; over a grey plain an eclipse shines a spotlight down from its dark middle.

The lamp on the bench has been on since before the workshop and is still only light. The codex proposes that light left on long enough sets, like glue, and that these are beams that have set. 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
In Meinong’s jungle
“Light cut by light”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Two crossing beams pass through each other. Here one cuts the other, and the off-cut falls and bounces.
In Meinong’s jungle
“The missing beam”: Impossible, the round square kind. A beam of light is light. Solid enough to lift a chunk out and leave it on a seat, it’s also not.
In Meinong’s jungle
“Hourglass aging light into iron”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Light leaves an hourglass as light. This beam comes out the far side as a rusted iron bar.
See the picture on the wall ↗ Its specimen in the jungle ↗

More pictures

In an empty velvet cinema, the projector’s beam runs in solid glassy blocks with a section missing, and the missing piece lies glowing on a red seat. Somebody took the best bit home.
“The missing beam”, Fresh slop
In a sunny attic, a red laser beam goes into one side of a brass hourglass and comes out the other side as a rusted iron bar. Light, it turns out, ages badly.
“Hourglass aging light into iron”, Fresh slop

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.

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