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| 5 | 75 | Only he can tie it, and, more importantly, only he View more quotes about knows">knows the reverse turns by which that knot, provided it has been untouched, is untied". |
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| 5 | 72 | His own knot was a sixty-two turn knot, his father's was seventy-one; one of his brothers used a hundred-and-four turn knot, which, as I recall, Andreas thought a bit pretentious". |
| 5 | 73 | "It is always the same knot though," said Elizabeth. |
| 5 | 74 | "Yes," I said, "each man has his own knot, as distinctive as a signature, and each knot is his own secret. |
| 5 | 75 | Only he can tie it, and, more importantly, only he knows the reverse turns by which that knot, provided it has been untouched, is untied". |
| 5 | 76 | "Anyone then," said Elizabeth, "could untie the knot". |
| 5 | 77 | "Surely," I said. |
| 5 | 78 | "The problem is to reconstruct the knot after it has been untied". |