The Ifth of Oofth

A short, zany, tall-tale reminiscent of Heinlein’s “And He Built A Crooked House”. Someone ends up making a 3-dimensional, unfolded projection of a 5-dimensional hypercube, a Penteract. The object, when dropped accidentally on the floor, ends up becoming a 4-spatial-dimensional tesseract extending into Time, leading to slap-stick comedy on planetary scale. The penteract-builder explains how the higher dimensional objects are made from lower dimensional ones (the author gets the number of cubes and tesseracts required to make a Penteract incorrect, using 64 cubes instead of 40 and mentioning that a Penteract has 8 tesseracts instead of 10). The “Ifth” and “Oofth” in the title refer to 2 spatial dimensions orthogonal to our 3-D (though only one of them ends up being used).