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Updated: June 1, 2025
He walks the land when the heaven above him is brass and the earth iron, when the trees and shrubs are languishing and the last blade of grass has given up the struggle for life, when the very roses smell only of dust, and all day long the roaring "dust devils" waltz about the fields, whirling leaf and grass and corn stalk round and round and up and away into the regions of the sky; and he unties a leather thong which chokes the throat of his goat-skin just where the head of the poor old goat was cut off, and straight-way, with a life-reviving gurgle, the stream called thunda panee gushes forth, and plant and shrub lift up their heads and the garden smiles again.
"You are very clever," said the Reindeer. "I know you can tie all the winds of the world together with a bit of twine; if the seaman unties one knot, he has a good wind; if he loosens the second, it blows hard; but if he unties the third and fourth, there comes such a tempest that the forests are thrown down.
The woman cannot understand that caste and race separate them; and the damp air of spent desire, and the grey and falling leaves of her illusions fill her life's sky. Nor is there any hope for her until the husband unties the awful knot by suicide. I aver that Mr R.L. Stevenson never wrote a line that failed to delight me; but he never wrote a book.
But you and I know more than this singer did; for we can listen to the Master, who says, 'He that believeth on Him is not condemned'; and to the servant who echoes and perhaps both of them are alluding to our psalm 'There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. My faith, if it knits me to Jesus Christ, unties the bonds by which my sin is bound upon me, for it makes me to share in His Spirit, in His righteousness, in His glory.
'Sleep unravels, yes, she said, vaguely as to context, yet with a querulous intensity. It was as if she caught at the enthusiasm of a connected thought somewhere. 'I might even say it unties, she added, encouraged by his nod, 'unties knots if you follow me. 'It does, Miss Waghorn. Indeed, it does. Was this a precursor of the Brother with the Beard, he wondered?
"I hold here what makes me the mightiest lord of the mighty!" Loge unties Alberich and bids him slip home. But the Nibelung is past care or fear, and rising to insane heights of hatred lays upon the ring such a curse as might well shake its owner's complacency. "As it came to me through a curse, accursed be this ring!
That is true: but the special importance of a conversion which unties the knot and brings the curtain down seemed to render it worthy of special consideration. Somerset Maugham's Grace the heroine undergoes a somewhat analogous change of heart, coming to love the husband whom she has previously despised. A blind-alley theme, as its name imports, is one from which there is no exit.
Just as she come out an' set down again, we heard the click o' the gate acrost at the corner house where the New People lived, an' it was the New Husband got home. We see his wife's white dress get up to meet him, an' they went in the house together, an' we see 'em standin' by the lamp, lookin' at things. Seems though the whole night was sort o' gentle. "All of a sudden Calliope unties her apron.
"No, don't cut them," says Tita quickly. She draws the basket towards her, and slowly and with care unties the true lover's knot of pale blue ribbon that fastens it. "Flowers, I expect," says Margaret. "But tied up like this?" "That is because there is a letter inside it."
The woman cannot understand that caste and race separate them; and the damp air of spent desire, and the grey and falling leaves of her illusions fill her life's sky. Nor is there any hope for her until the husband unties the awful knot by suicide. I will state frankly that Mr. R.L. Stevenson never wrote a line that failed to delight me; but he never wrote a book.
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