Hexagonal Lobes,
Moist Tube — and —
Other Riddles
A series of fruit descriptions
and their illustration by scientific illustrators
who suspected nothing
by S.F. Kislev
↓1Blindfolded, grope a fruit or a vegetable.
↓2Describe what you’re feeling in technical terms. Remain ambiguous.
↓3Commission scientific illustrators to prepare drawings based on the descriptions.
Claim that the descriptions are hallucinations that come to you in your sleep.
4Marvel at the resulting illustrations: peculiar sci-fi beings, faintly echoing fruit.
↓5Ask viewers to reverse-engineer the process.
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