"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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It looks to me the hook should be on the right side of the loop (knot)
instead of on the left?, as I was looking at the diagram.

Given that the bend is uninvolved in the knot, it wouldn't make any
difference. Imagine this lying flat on a table. Placing the point of a
pencil anywhere inside the snarl of loops and pushing it away from you would
make the whole mess slide off of the running line between the hook and the
bend at the right. In other words, you could indeed place the hook on the
right, but it would be easy to do that as things stand in the picture by
simply sliding it over.....nothing would be disturbed in the process. The
knot (if knot it actually is.....I haven't looked closely enough to be sure)
is the mass of coils in the center, between the hook and the bend. The bend
itself CANNOT be a part of the knot as it is pictured.

Wolfgang