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Legs — how many? whose? — twine and untwine, a meticulous confusion of limbs.

“To untwine it to one aspect of it diminishes the other, and I don’t want to do that. It’s the totality of it. It’s the gestalt of it.”

It would be difficult to untwine the system by which we measured much of the past 80 years — but that isn’t really New Zealand’s goal.

We know how these stories usually end once they untwine.

The fierce grudges over historical persecution and a thousand perceived national and cultural slights cannot be untwined from the sports for many Koreans.