One day Alexander of Macedonia, while visiting Phrygia, learned that there was an elaborate tangled knot in a place called Gordium, which they challenged people to untie.
“You can cut right through it,” Alexander offered.
“We didn’t say anything about cutting it. We were talking about untying it,” they said.
“But watch me cut it,” said Alexander. “Then it isn’t a knot anymore. Then all of you can settle down about the knot.”
And so he did. And that’s why the Gordian knot is famous even today. Otherwise it was a little like one of those giant balls of yarn that people visit at roadside attractions.
Alexander the Great, they called him.
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