Actually, this was part of physicist Alan Sokal's prank. He deliberately wrote
a bogus article in a social sciences journal, to show that part of the "soft"
scientific world was borrowing "hard" sciences concepts in a totally pedantic
way (like torus topology applied to psychoanalysis, and much worse).

However, if a torus is neurotic, what about the whole "math" directory in pov ?

Gilles Tran
The Book of Beginnings - Povray Gallery
http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html

Nieminen Mika wrote:

>   I just saw this signature:
>
> ...a cut on a torus corresponds to the neurotic subject, and on a cross-cut
> surface to another kind of mental disease. (Alan Sokal:
> Transgessing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics)
>
>   What does this mean? That when I make a difference with a torus I'm
> mentally sick?
>
> --
>                                                            - Warp. -

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