Relic

[Truerenigma]

You misunderstand. The only reason the amber absurdity existed for me in the first place was because I somehow was switching 'her' with 'on'. That being said, the sentence is strange and awkward. I feels like an inversion, but it's not, because if it was corrected it would sound like the shelf is entombed in amber. It's just weird, awkward, tortured phrasing with 'am' eliminated as if it were some lowly article or prep.

How about:

Entombed in amber,
I am sitting on a shelf
among the more novel finds;

No. Someone sits on a shelf. He is, or I am, or we are entombed in amber. Be be be. Be and do and be and do

OK, I will try it with no inversion:

I am entombed
in amber, sitting on a shelf
among her more novel finds;

(It works, but puts the narrator before the fossil)
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I'm not interested in the fossil. I'm interested in what it has to do with the human experience. I'm not a big fan of sitting though.

Something like: I sit on her shelf among more novel find. I am entombed in amber. But that is listing. Which is what you are doing anyway, I guess.

Maybe something like "I sit entombed in amber on this shelf, among her more novel finds."

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Even better, I sit in my amber tomb upon her shelf ...

And there's got be a way to show instead of tell more novel find.

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If you want to remove the narrator, try something other than first-person.