The opener, Sleeping Ute, is every bit as knotty as anything on Veckatimest, but its odd time signature and synthesiser arpeggios appear to be there for a purpose.
In other words, Scotland is a bit of knotty problem for Labour.
Parsons' embrace of this seemingly double life is a knotty bit of history, though maybe not impossible to untangle.
The first-time gardener faces a number of knotty choices.
But if you're a complete novice, you may get a bit lost among all the options and knotty jargon, with phrases like "a loop on the bight" and "fair the knot".
But whereas the holidays have become yet more expensive and high maintenance every year (£90 for a club ticket? £10,000 a week for a villa? £500 for a beach chair? Hey, it's Ibiza, yeah? Where everything is just so laidback and simple!), that bit of string on the wrist just gets nattier and knottier every year.
A dozen or so pages later, you emerge from a sustained immersion in this knotty, strenuous prose rubbing your eyes -- dazzled, maybe a bit fatigued and unquestionably wiser than you were before.
Also, his scholarly work led to a sublime bit of parody: Woody Allen's re-telling and parody of those knotty, earthy, enigmatic stories — "Hassidic Tales, With a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar" — was engaged with their zaniness and the deadpan tone of interpretation.
The second issue was knottier.
Finally (on I think my fourth book) I realised that my process is "work a bit, faff a bit," and that the "faffing" was actually the time when some of the knotty problems would quietly work themselves out in the background.
