Effer schneiben frieben! said the writer s block Little did the writer know though the block contained a knotted torus fresh from the fourth dimension where it had gotten into a fight with half of Buckaroo Banzai who had in a fit of rage contorted it in such a way that upon its return to euclidian space it would be both knotted and trapped in a block So contorted and ensnared the torus set about to make its fortune in the world of fashion that elusive but rewarding trade to which very few are truly called Knots are coming back in a big way honey The torus was reassured by these words from Slade a minor hairdresser for Giorgio Armani who was one of the torus first contacts in the world of high fashion I mean it lovie said Slade wiggling his scissors in his hand the fashion world will be turned on its ear when they get a look at your contorted figure Contort this baby it muttered as it wrapped its curve around the pleasantly curved shoulders of the hairdresser Now now he began I d like to keep our relationship to a strictly geometric one Shut up and prove me it intoned with its inponderable bends After several hours of attempted but uninspired proofs limited to 3 dimensional space the theoretical construct wandered dejectedly out into the street having lost faith in the wold of contourage but hoping feebly that somewhere somewhere in this world there was a cube that understood his n-dimensionality That cube turned out to be Betty Marple a socially inept young girl who happened by a freak of nature and geometry to be perfectly symmetrical Her unfashionable clothes hung awkwardly on her cuboid frame but the torus found her beautiful just the same I wuv you it intoned in a baby-voice hoping to win her over with feigned innocence You re the first sentient being to understand me it fawned delicately stroking one of her planes with a mind-boggling curve You all know the story Torus meets stylist stylist is a boring matematician turns loses stylist torus meets cube torus is fondled by cube torus explodes Tragic tragic story Curved fragments all over the sidewalk However before the explosion the pair had managed to conceive a child Through the miracles of modern calculations they managed to save the child who was to be named Horus in honour of its mother The funny thing was that he didn t particularly look like a cube nor a torus (It was later revealed that Horus was in fact the illicit offspring of the stylist and a crane )