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He doesn't say "cut", he says "split". A twisted rope can be split into two parts without damaging either.

• Terretta 10y ago
  Er, no. You're both substituting in the word from your mental model. "Yet he divides the rope in half, ties the two parts together..."
  • regularfry 10y ago
    Er, no. From the article: > Which leads to one final question: how exactly did the prisoner with the insufficiently long rope manage to escape? The answer: he split the rope lengthwise, tied the two halves together and shimmied to freedom.
    • Terretta 10y ago
      That's not the proposition, that's the reveal.
      • regularfry 10y ago
        So what?
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