A Rope of Sand


a running joke used in academic writing. the phrase, purposefully meaningless and ambivalent, is used after a colon to “spice up” a t-tle.
the collapse of the ottoman empire: a rope of sand
organ transplant rejection: a rope of sand
my summer vacation: a rope of sand

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