Knots

Posted on by Reena Saxena

The Scout and Guide movement launched by Lord Baden Powell was revolutionary enough to keep me busy in school, painstakingly learning to tie knots of different kinds – reef, sheet-bend, fisherman’s and others. The rope tied to my belt felt nothing less than a pistol.

Then, came the craft teacher who made knots look like a work of art, with her exquisite patterns.

The professor of psychology is someone I’d rather have not met. Freud was insane, but he made a living out of it.

I’m still not sure if intelligence lies in untangling knots or learning to tie new ones.

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  3. What an enjoyable Six!

    So, if the goal is to untie knots, (my own predilection) then surely the most effective (if not time-intensive) approach is to loosen each section of the rope that is creating the knot.

    This perforce requires involving additional lengths of said rope… slack (in the line) permits movement which is the first step to loosening.

    … and, I know this has long been established, but it’s fun to say: one, (the un-tyer of the knot), eventually realizes, usually as we struggle to pull one loop out from a crossed-over section… there is only one rope.

    A single unity tricked (by accident or design) into performing a function at the expense of itself (it’s unencumbered unity)

    When it comes to most problems I have interacting with the world around me, I try to remember, I am the rope first and the knot second.

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