1. The vendor is, in every retelling, anonymous. The paradox needs no author; it is wild-collected.
2. One reads the spear’s vein as linear, the shield’s as concentric: two grammars of growth that cannot share a stem.
3. A young naturalist suggested (1894) that the paradox might be solved by giving the spear a different name. She was politely ignored.
4. The pulse meter does not blink. Blinking is for crises; contradictions only breathe.
5. Faded Petal · #C9A2B4 · chosen for the bloom because rose has, historically, been the colour of polite refusal.
6. The Brass Pin (#B98C4A) is reserved for instruments — we do not pin specimens with brass; we pin data.
7. Deckled edges are imitated, not real. The herbarium is digital; the dust is metaphor.
8. If you press a paradox long enough, it does not flatten — it crystallizes. See PL. IV.
The collection grows by donation. Should you encounter a contradiction in the wild — pressed against the page of a book, or floating in a marketplace — bring it gently here. We will press it on cream cardstock and give it a number.