The northern lights
The aurora on the wall, which gets sewn, snagged, shipped, sunk and breathed out.
On the wall the northern lights are handled like cloth. A sewing machine in a pine forest stitches out a length of them; over a snowy city they have snagged on a radio mast and hang there tangled (Knots); on a frozen plain they pour out through the doors of a rusty shipping container and up across the sky; under the sea they hang in curtains between the stalks of a kelp forest; on the tundra a reindeer breathes a cloud of them out.
The Slopwright stitches the night sky with golden thread (The Night Mender), and the night is kept in things and let out a little at a time (The night, kept). The codex proposes the aurora as the night’s cloth: run up on a machine, shipped in containers, and snagged, sunk and breathed out wherever it ends up. 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
- Outside
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Aurora spilling from a freight container”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Shipping containers carry goods, never weather. One has come open and the northern lights are getting out.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Northern seams”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Sewing machines need cloth; aurora is charged gas. A machine can try.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Northern lights in reindeer breath”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Breath on a cold morning makes a little fog. A reindeer makes a whole aurora with each one.
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
- stitched like the sky in The Night Mender
- let out like The night, kept
- snagged in Knots
- sewn in Repairs