The spare moons
More moons than the sky needs, kept, mended and given time off.
The wall has a lot of moons, and most of them aren’t in the sky. A pink one floats half deflated over a beach, off duty. A crescent stands on a plinth in a dark gallery. One sits in a drawer with its own grey mountains; one swings on a metronome; one hangs beside a balcony; one is in an oyster where the pearl should be; a theatre seat waits for one on the moon itself; one, eclipsed over a cratered plain, shines a spotlight down out of its dark middle as if something were about to go on. In a workshop a small grey moon split in two is clamped in a caliper, a fraction too wide (A minor adjustment), and in the laundromat they are washed.
The codex proposes that they are spares: moons kept on hand, looked after and swapped in. 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
- Object
- World
- The wall
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Moon leave”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Balloons come in every shape, moons included. Sleepiness is printed on, presumably.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Moonlight in the drawer”: Impossible, the round square kind. The moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Crescent moon in the midnight gallery”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Plausibly a lit sculpture. If it’s the actual moon, the plinth is coping very well.
More pictures
On the wall
Pieces of Fresh slop with one like it in them, grouped here by the proposal. The pictures don’t say they are the same one.
Connections
- adjusted in A minor adjustment
- washed in The all-night laundromat
- swings on, once The metronome
- kept in a drawer, not this one The Drawer