Gordian Knot

Turn him to any cause of policy,

The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose,

Familiar as his garter

 

Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1

 

The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot").

 

Crazy Tuesday

Knots

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