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didn't find out until later, when I played with it with Roger.
When you think of lacing something up, you normally visualize
putting a cord in one side of a hole, and out the other. That's
the way the bottom piece was laced, but the top was more clever.
The cord came up through the hole, around a flexible rod, and
back down through the same hole. (This is much the same way that
a sewing machine works, incidentally.) If you remove the rod,
the loop just falls through. Of course, there was enough tension
on the cords that one single rod didn't cover a whole edge.
Instead, there were a series of them, each about 8 inches long,
with a loop in one end to make withdrawal easier. So he had to
remove a few on each side -- but that's much faster than unlacing
the whole thing.
I woke up the next morning with the sun shining in my eyes.
Eyes? The blindfold was off! I rolled over quickly to see who
was next to me; at least, I rolled over as quickly as I could,
given the state of my arms and legs. It was Roger! I kneed him
awake, but not before I noticed that he was bound the same way I
was. That was odd -- cable ties are hard to fasten one-handed;
it wasn't at all clear that he coul
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