The Untieable Knot

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-<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''untieable knot''' ''n'' '''1.''' A Catholic marriage. '''2.''' A "one-way" knot, that, once fixed, cannot be [[release]]d. '''3.''' The product or result of an irreversible decision, esp. one concerning a thorny issue. '''4.''' A used noose. '''5.''' The original slogan for superglue, apparently adapted from portions of [[Gnomic]] entrance rituals. 6. An un-makable configuration; quite simply, a knot that cannot be ''tied''.+<tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''untieable knot''' ''n'' '''1.''' A Catholic marriage. '''2.''' A "one-way" knot, that, once fixed, cannot be [[release]]d. '''3.''' The product or result of an irreversible decision, esp. one concerning a thorny issue. '''4.''' A used noose. '''5.''' The original slogan for superglue, apparently adapted from portions of [[Gnomic]] entrance rituals. '''6.''' An un-makable configuration; quite simply, a knot that cannot be ''tied''.
== Usage == == Usage ==

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untieable knot n 1. A Catholic marriage. 2. A "one-way" knot, that, once fixed, cannot be released. 3. The product or result of an irreversible decision, esp. one concerning a thorny issue. 4. A used noose. 5. The original slogan for superglue, apparently adapted from portions of Gnomic entrance rituals. 6. An un-makable configuration; quite simply, a knot that cannot be tied.

Usage


"Vasectomy, my dear: there will be no more..." -- Nevid Kessar's reply to churlish demands for a 15th child

"John P. Merriweather: frozen dead with Gnomic robes laced about the belly..." -- nonexistent obituary

"Knots come in two sizes -- figurable and the non-figurable. Such is the official language." - dismissive graffito discovered in the the bathroom, ruthlessly carved, Upender's Squat, 1979, reveried by Elisa Breton.

"There's no going back now!" -- Dr. Zachary Smith to Will Robinson, circa 1965

"Let no man rent asunder what God has declared one." -- from Einstein's impassioned plea to the president against the Manhattan Project

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Desiderata


Albert Kook's last words were mumbled, tongue tied.