Antinomies on the Landscape

by Brian Hayes

Published 1 October 2007

False Creek in Vancouver, from near Granville Island (which is not an island)

From the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guide to the Pacific Northwest, page 218:

In spite of its name, False Creek is not a creek at all….

Responses from readers:

  • A comment from Barry Cipra, 1 October 2007 at 1:23 pm

    If it has two places where boats can tie up, then False Creek contains a paradox….

  • A comment from seb, 4 October 2007 at 9:33 am

    I thought we knew that every sentence that contains the word false in it is false.

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Publication history

First publication: 1 October 2007

Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025

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