Impossible Questions

Let's get thinking creatively by attempting to answer some 'impossible questions'.  You can have some fun with this.  Choose at least three from the list below, and try to write a detailed response for each. Fill your descriptions with simile and metaphor; you can really go overboard.

If you're feeling particuarly inventive you could try them all.  I've had a go at the first two combined: let me know what you think of my efforts!

1. What do numbers taste of?
2. What do words smell like?
3. What is the sound of silence?
4. How old is never?
5. What colour is fear?
6. What does greed smell of?
7. What shape is infinity?
8. What does an echo look like?
9. Who is nowhere?
10. What is the texture of sadness?

Crunchy Numbers and Whiffy Words

Numbers taste metallic.  That sort of taste you get if you accidentally get a piece of silver foil in your mouth, or you attempt to bite into a coin.  They taste that way because they are mechanical things forming patterns and processes but individually they are leaden and fixed.  They can set your teeth on edge. Very unwieldy numbers taste worse, like rust.  Bits of them fall off and get stuck. Then they are a bit crunchy, but not 'good' crunchy like honeycomb, more the fiddly-chomp of iron filings.You want to spit but they cling. 

Not like words, of course. You can't usually taste words because they are like fizzing popcorn in your mouth, dynamic and untamed.  Explosive if too concentrated.  Words can sometimes smell musty like an old library, particularly when they aren't used often enough.  Mostly though they smell like spring, full of the promise of new life and the joy of a long summer ahead.