(For Paul)
As usual I rushed. Bloody heck Aries!
Anyway,…
The Gordian knot will take time to discuss.
I think that’s the point.
It was a Phrygian knot
Tied to an ox cart
& beyond anyone so far, at that time, to unravel
Begging the question
Does every knot have to be undone?
The Phrygians were in a region which was in ancient Asian Türkiye.
I think therefore they would be described as ancient Persians?
You’d have to check the extent of the ancient Persian Empire
So,
Alexander of Macedon,
Son of Phillip
Know by many as Alexander the Great
According to someone I spoke to
He never ‘lost a battle’(?)
Is this true?
Another one to look up
If he ‘never lost a battle’
Then how did he die?
Or are the Hellenics trying to claim
He never died?
Wouldn’t put it past anyone
To think all sorts of shit
Anyway,
Alexander
Heard about the legend
That anyone who could untie the complex knot
The Gordian knot
Would ‘rule all of Asia’
In short
If that’s a good idea?
Maybe
A thumbnail print
Might say
That it might mean
‘To rule all of the Ancient Sino-Indo-Persian-who else?Egyptian-Nubian-Russe-I’m an amateur a poor Historian-Cartographer-Geographer
Google user & some books’
But a thinker!
Blah blah
As dad said to me before he died
“Doora, you’ve gotta stop doing that”
As in selling myself short
I’m ok
Not claiming I can or should even undo
Many basic or simple knots
But I’m a good amateur masseur
& I’ve helped people in pain
So I’ve undone a couple
Anyway Alexander was set in his head on conquest
Of the ‘known or expedient world’
Not a great philosopher or poet
Or scholar of mythology
Despite
His ‘great’ ego
Anyway he was an effective general
If you value such things
To be ‘great’
Not my cuppa tea
When I had to do military training
I chose to be a medic
You know:
The Hippocratic Oath?
Treat every person on earth
With equal care
Ur a healer
Not a killer
But no one knows for sure till push comes to shove
& as we’ve proven
I can be like
A ‘bull in a china shop’
Anyway,
Alexander wasn’t interested in such
Poetry
Or patience
Or respect of others of different creeds
According to a mate
He was less interested
In cultural genocide
& more into
Conquest & plunder
& killin
Not sure his sexual politics
But symbolically speaking
I reckon if he treated his lovers like he did the Gordian knot
He wouldn’t have the patience to really have care for
Or
shorthand
Do the Tantra (kapische?)
So this legendary knot
That boggled the minds of the Phrygians & their visitors
Or at least
Awed them…
… Alexander approached the knot
& with a sword
Just fuckin cut it!
Many in the Western Canon
Have applauded him
What does Google say?
About a metaphor for solving a seemingly intractable problem
With a swift & easy solution
Man I’m not into ‘solutions’
That was Hitler’s bag
Fuck him!
Anyway fuck him!
Fuck Alexander ‘the Great’!
Surely it’s just more
Might over right!?
& maybe the cutting unleashed
Evil upon the world!?
Maybe some knots are meant to remain knots?
Like the double headed serpent?
I don’t know
Maybe it’s women’s business?
Weaving?
Then again sailors fishermen & skilled artisans have used knots
Men often
Anyway
I’m not into
‘Might over right’
I’m into patience
I’m into care
I’m in time
& into time
& I’ve learned that with or through these things
Some knots come undone by themselves
Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.
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