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• LOVE: Love ties in a knot in the end of the rope.
• When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on, and swing!
• deadman: climber (male) who forgets to knot either end of a rappel rope.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. -- Bill Cosby
• And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- Paul McCartney
• Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss.
  A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping....
• Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Eloisa to Abelard, Line 74...
• knot: configuration often discovered in the middle of a rappel rope during a rappel.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• water knot: rope configuration used by sea cliff climbers who tend to fall a lot.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...