Part III
What a wrong approach to ideal knots can do to a man.
Contemporary artists
are also interested in the ideal knots problem.
Obviously, their view
is completely different. It is so, because the world around them is
different:
more aggressive, dangerous,
terrifying. People involved in the knot untangling business are often
perverted.
A good example of what
a wrong approach to the untangling activity may do to a man has
been
illustrated by Starowieyski.
His "Serial knot untangler" shows a monster ready to use his
brutal skill on a completely
helpless knot. To me it is awesome.
Certainly, not all means
leading to the ideal goal are permitted.
Serial knot untangler
(based on: Nieuchwytny
morderca by Franciszek
Starowieyski)
That untangling knot
can be connected with perversion was known already to ancient Greeks.
As I have found out, the
activity for which Oedipus gained such a terrible reputation was but
a cover
to something even more
terrifying. Not only he was untangling knots by himself using non-Reidemeister
moves,
but he also was
ordering it to his own son! Henry Fuseli revealed this horrifying truth.
Just look at the poor
juvenile. How hideous this order must have been to him.
Non-Reidemeister moves!
Gosh!
Oedipus ordering
his son to use non-Reidemeister moves
(based on: Oedipus
Cursing his Son, Polyneices, Henry
Fuseli)
Entangled knots are not good for
human minds.
Among the artists who knew this simple
truth was Edgar Degas.
He seems to be the first to discover the
cause of the blue mood ubiquitous among the absinth
drinkers:
nastily entangled, knotted molecules of
higher cyclic alcohols.
Today we know: mind is not able to untangle
them.
On the contrary, the naughty molecules
easily entangle the mind.
(Try. With caution!)