 Good afternoon. This is Dr. Theron Sherman and in today's briefing We'll be looking through a conceptual window at an anomaly known only as cube There isn't any objectionable material in this briefing. So let's begin There is a man here where or who this man is is unimportant probably Nothing can be made out in the surroundings. Indeed. It cannot be said that there even are surroundings No, all that is important is that there is a man and that he is here The man himself is similarly obscured. How unfortunate Tucked close to his body an outfit of some kind can be made out But there is no face to be interpreted. No emotions to read. He is looking away. He is thinking He is thinking about geometry One can tell a lot about a man by their favorite convex palahedra after all very rarely is a man concave And so the result in form is or at least should be entirely convex Quick footnote if you are concave in any way something is wrong. See a cosmetopologist now. Where were we? Yes, therefore the judgment of their self-worth is revealed There are the platonic solids not to be confused with the genre of relationship, of course There are a practically infinite number of their misshapen siblings Yes, but these are the true ones the ones that matter the others do not matter They don't We're getting off track the platonics your tetrahedrons octahedrons dozer hedrons all five of them normal to some degree helpful Regular perhaps simple and elegant constructions of similarly simple and elegant lower order shapes They're perfect. He thinks he can use these He has to use these The man is thinking about one in particular He cannot decide which one he is thinking about but it has to be one of them It is clear. It is not the icosahedron, right? That is an idea only let him by convention too big to be practical and he waves it off It also cannot be the tetrahedron, right? That one is too small too simple interesting, but not as cup of tea He will reconsider these options again and again. He reconsidered those previously discarded Perhaps a smaller thought would satiate him Maybe a larger one would fill the space better the idea morphs in front of him trying to be something worthwhile to him and Still he is unhappy He thinks further outside what he is so confidently claimed were his options The idea becomes great not good enough Stella too far Maybe the idea can just be an outline the shape of something so someone else can piece it together That feels lazy though. So it tumbles back into a lack of shape None of these ideas are right no and so they are left to stew He starts to think other thoughts and those that are forsaken meld in the back of his mind It's annoying at best, but it eats away at him. Why can he not simply think he thinks? It should be easy The idea has stood for a while Maybe he's ready to think of it again, but he does not It slips further and further down becoming nothing but a fading reverie Then a faint whisper then a void It is cast to the grave of the forgotten The oblivion of ideas It is not the first It will not be the last Item description a generic white convex solid resembling an n-dimensional cube The exact value of n has yet to be determined date of recovery unknown location of recovery unknown current status In concessual containment As a footnote, it's probably for the best Hmm There is not a man here Thank you for listening Site 42 studios and its staff are funded by viewers like you Please become a patron or visit our merch store at the link in our bio to support our work Secure contain protect